300+ Deep Quotes – Most Popular Deep Thoughts Quotes

Quotes and deep thoughts have become a big part of our lives. People look to these quotes for inspiration, motivation, and direction in their personal and professional lives. Insights on love, happiness, and prosperity can be found in profound thoughts and phrases. They make us question our beliefs, learn more about ourselves, and gain a broader view of different parts of life. People seek out profound quotes for various purposes, including but not limited to social media posts, public speeches, and personal introspection.

In this article, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular deep-thought quotes that have stood the test of time and continue inspiring people from all walks of life.

Best Deep Quotes

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. — Hermann Hesse

 

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. — Louis L’Amour

 

I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.  – Roy Croft

 

To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publilius Syrus

 

I don’t associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution. – Megan Price

 

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. – Henri L. Bergson

 

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.  – Elie Wiesel

 

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is. -Dennis Rodman

 

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran

 

Without deep reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. – Albert Einstein

 

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something. – Anita Krizzan

 

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. – Rumi

 

There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.  -Oscar Wilde

 

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  – Albert Einstein

 

I freed 1000 slaves. I could have freed 1000 more if only they knew they were slaves. – Harriet Tubman

 

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.  -Albert Einstein

 

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. – Edgar Allan Poe

 

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua Marine

 

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

 

If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship. – Steve Maraboli

 

You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be. ― Robert M. Drake

 

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ― Albert Einstein

 

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

 

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. — Khalil Gibran

 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. –Abraham Lincoln

 

I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams. – Dr. Seuss

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell

 

My philosophy is Worrying means you suffer twice. – Newt Scamader

 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. – Lao Tzu

 

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.  – Fannie Flagg

 

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. –  Martin Luther King  Jr.

 

There’s nothing scarier than loving someone. – Emily Henry

 

Our lives improve only when we take chances…and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.  – Walter Anderson

 

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience. -Marie Curie

 

Each new chapter of our lives requests an old part of us to fall and a new part of us to rise. – Jenna Galbut

 

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different? -Calvin and Hobbs

 

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. – Julian Barnes

 

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.  – Taraji Henson

 

If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside. – Jim Kwik

 

Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. – Muhammad Ali

 

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.  – Stephanie Perkins

 

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. – Seneca

 

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it than any other person can be. – Jane Austen

 

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard

 

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. ― Maggie Stiefvater

 

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. – Edgar Allan Poe

 

The right partner makes your life take off, not settle down. The right partner doesn’t change you – you change yourself when you feel free enough to be loved for who you really are. — Brianna Wiest

 

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. — Ray Kroc

 

A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.  – Henry Wadsworth

 

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It was scary at first, but every great thing starts out a little scary, doesn’t it? – R. Warm Bodies

 

I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.  – Helen Keller

 

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.  – F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. – Voltaire

 

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is – not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss. – Joseph Campbell

 

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. – H. P. Lovecraft

 

Don’t wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.  – Albert Einstein

 

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave. – Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.  – Albert Einstein

 

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.  – Tori Amos

 

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is that we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. – Stephen Furtick

 

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. – Mark Twain

 

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. – Langston Hughes

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.  – Oscar Wilde

 

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Marthe Troly-Curtin

 

Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G.I. Gurdijieff

 

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. – Sonia Gandhi

 

Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you from wanting them. ― Holly Black

 

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Kahlil Gibran

 

Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be ‘over it’ by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not anything that was genuine, mind..soul-crushingly life-altering. — Cheryl Strayed

 

The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent. — Rob Kalin

 

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.  – Cassandra Clare

 

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one. – Doc Brown

 

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

 

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. – Dave Barry

 

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. – William Wordsworth

 

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. – Robert A. Heinlein

 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. – Mitt Romney

 

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. –Abraham Maslow

 

Time is a created thing. To say I don’t have time is like saying, I don’t want to. – Lao Tzu

 

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.  – James Baldwin

 

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship. – Michelle Willams

 

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ― Dr. Seus

 

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me. –  Billy Graham

 

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.  – Brian McKnight

 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

 

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. – Meister Eckhart

 

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. – Martin Heidegger

 

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship. ― Michelle Williams

 

I rebel; therefore I exist.  – Albert Camus

 

You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out. — Warren Buffett

 

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. — Jack Canfield

 

There is madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.  ​– Leo Christopher

 

I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress. – Ed Begley Jr.

 

You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying. – Madame Leota

 

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn vos Savant

 

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.  – Sue Monk Kidd

 

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. – Dejan Stojanovic

 

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul. – Gianna Perada

 

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. – Steve Maraboli

 

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. – Stephen Covey

 

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. – Seth Godin

 

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. – Ram Dass

 

Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.  – Dr. Seuss

 

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul. – Gianna Carini

 

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

 

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

 

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. – Richard M. Nixon

 

Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.  – Anne Frank

 

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight. – Epictetus

 

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. – Francis Bacon

 

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

 

Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ― Ranata Suzuki

 

If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself. – Rumi

 

Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? — Mary Oliver

 

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. – -Jeff Bezos

 

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way. – Pablo Neruda

 

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain

 

But that’s just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice. But I very seldom follow it. – Alice

 

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison

 

I know all about how one moment could haunt you for the rest of your life. How it consumes you and every facet of your life. – Micalea Smeltzer

 

Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things. – Joe Paterno

 

There is an ocean of silence between us and I am drowning in it. – Ranata Suzuki

 

We ask for a long life, but ‘this deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. – William James

 

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. – Mary Tyler Moore

 

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. – Cicero

 

What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.  -Mark Twain

 

You can have a religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality. – Eckhart Tolle

 

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ― Oscar Wilde

 

It is only when we take chances when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.  – Walter Anderson

 

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. – Alexander Pope

 

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.  – Barbara Kingsolver

 

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus

 

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. – Lao Tzu

 

Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn it’s back on you. ― Jennifer Donnelly

 

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. ― Criss Jami

 

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. – William Arthur Ward

 

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. — John McCain

 

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren’t going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward … having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would. — Larry Ellison

 

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right. – Joel Osteen

 

Some people are worth melting for. – Olaf

 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

 

What are we here for? We are not alive though we are living and we are not in our graves though we are dead.  – Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama

 

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

 

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. – Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. – J.K.Rowling

 

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther

 

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

 

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. – Buddha

 

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

 

Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health but has left it to us to put these pieces together. – Diane McLaren

 

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. – Albert Schweitzer

 

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. – Bryant H. McGill

 

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

 

Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.  – Robert Greene

 

I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now I am lost And nothing means anything anymore. ― Ranata Suzuki

 

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver

 

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. — Sara Teasdale

 

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin

 

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. – William Pen

 

Sometimes you try your hardest, but things don’t turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes things have to change. And maybe sometimes they’re for the better. – Nani

 

When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.  – Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

She’s kind of a walking poem, she’s this perfect beauty…but at the same time very deep, very smart. – Johnny Depp

 

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems. – Stephen Covey

 

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. – William Faulkner

 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

 

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. – Sun Tzu

 

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. – Rumi

 

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. – Henry Ford

 

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.  – Rosa Parks

 

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. – Socrates

 

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.  – Tom Bodett

 

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach. – Cesar Chavez

 

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. – Annie Lennox

 

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. – Henrik Ibsen

 

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein

 

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go. ― Ranata Suzuki

 

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

 

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

 

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. — Sam Walton

 

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. – Carl Jung

 

You don’t really know how much you can do until you stand up and decide to try. – Dave

 

If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

 

You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.  – Ava Dellaira

 

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. – Gloria Stuart

 

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn

 

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. – Henry David Thoreau

 

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. – Jim Morrison

 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.  – Albert Schweitzer

 

He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others. – Albert Einstein

 

Holding onto your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. – Buddha

 

The opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato

 

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.  – Elbert Hubbard

 

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. – John Steinbeck

 

The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful. – William Shatner

 

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Eskimo Proverb

 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – William Shakespeare

 

What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make an effort toward caring about it. – Nokwethemba Nkosi

 

I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him. ― Ranata Suzuki

 

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. – Voltaire

 

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child. — Halle Berry

 

There is no security on the Earth, there is the only opportunity. — Douglas MacArthur

 

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. – Epicurus

 

You are who you choose to be. – Hogarth Hughes

 

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.  – Christopher Reeve

 

Don’t get too deep, it leads to overthinking, and overthinking leads to problems that don’t even exist in the first place. – Jayson Engay

 

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. – Alan Paton

 

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

 

We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. – Tony Robbins

 

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. – Edwin Louis Cole

 

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves. – Bruce Lee

 

It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

 

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. – Sam Keen

 

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.  – Tryon Edwards

 

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. – Bo Burnham

 

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful. – Joshua Foer

 

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill

 

The opposite of love does not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin

 

I just don’t know how…to think less. If you know-how, then teach me. ― Aishah Madadiy

 

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. – Rumi

 

In order to realize our true self, we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others. — Bruce Lee

 

Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count. — Ken Hubbard

 

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates

 

Fate. There is fate. But it only takes you so far, because once you’re there, it’s up to you to make it happen. – Angel Stripper

 

There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition. – Steven J. Ross

 

They call it the drowning instinct. It’s when drowning doesn’t look like drowning. – Ilsa J. Bick

 

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. – C. S. Lewis

 

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

 

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John W. Gardner

 

As long as we are persistent in the pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. – Denis Waitley

 

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anais Nin

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

 

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran

 

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher

 

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That’s what I wanted to do. – Whitney Houston

 

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.  – Ann Hood

 

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. – L.M. Montgomery

 

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is the painting that is felt rather than seen. – Leonardo da Vinci

 

Could I have been anyone other than me?― Dave Matthews

 

He was both everything I could ever want And nothing I could ever have. ― Ranata Suzuki

 

It is not I who am strong, it is the reason, it is truth. – Émile Zola

 

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. — Laurence J. Peter

 

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. – Socrates

 

You might as well like yourself. Just think of all the time you’re going to have to spend with you. And, well, if you don’t think much of yourself, how can others? – Professor Julius Kelp

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.  – Confucius

 

You shouldn’t have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer. – Daniel Quinn

 

It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed. – Doe Zantamata

 

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. – Cormac McCarthy

 

Take life one step at a time look forward to your future, stop looking back and regretting the past, the past is the past because it does not last! – Abhishek Tiwari

 

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. – Alice Walker

 

The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. – Mark Nepo

 

One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. DO IT NOW. – Paulo Coelho

 

The two most important days of your life are the day that you’re born and the day that you find out why.  -Mark Twain

 

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. – Byron Nelson

 

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren

 

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. – Ruth St. Denis

 

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. – Bryant H. McGill

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim

 

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

 

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  – Frederick Douglass

 

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow. ― Ranata Suzuki

 

If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like. –  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

I do not see the world at all; I invent it. — Franz Kafka

 

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson

 

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. – Plato

 

Do or do not, there is no try. –Yoda

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

 

It’s your heart. No one else gets a say in that.  – Jay Asher

 

Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired. – Anonymous

 

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. – Dean Koontz

 

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron

 

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.  – Mandy Hale

 

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell

 

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

 

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. – Elliot Richardson

 

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. – Mencius

 

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. – Chantal Sutherland

 

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

 

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. – Bell Hook

 

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

 

Art and love are the same things: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. – Chuck Klosterman

Even though life is busy and stressful, you need time to consider what’s essential. Our bodies and minds were not made to be constantly distracted, stressed out, and overloaded with information. So, to be at our best and have an entire life, we each need to give ourselves regular time to think and reflect. These deep quotes should have altered your outlook on life.

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