The most beautiful lines ever written

What is the most beautiful line ever written or said?

That's the question a Quora thread posed, and some of the answers were too good not to share. Enjoy.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

• Khalil Gibran

There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask 'What if I fall?' Oh but my darling, What if you fly?

• Erin Hanson

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

• The God of Small Things Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Find what you love and let it kill you.

• Charles Bukowski

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

• Carl Sagan on the picture of Earth above

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

Via Paul K

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

• Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

• Albert Camus

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

• Preface to Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus by TS Eliot

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

• Gandhi

You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

• Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

• Rabindranath Tagore

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