In this life full of ups and downs, we all sometimes need a different perspective on things and phases of our life. There are times when you need to focus deeply on the inner meaning of your existence and think beyond the superficial happenings.
We have got some of the most famous deep thinking quotes and sayings from writers, philosophers, and celebrities which are truly thought-provoking.
There are people from all walks of life who experience betrayal in love, sadness, confusion and other emotions when they find difficult to find their aim in life. You need to calm your thoughts, be positive and dig deeper in your mind to get your answers.
When you take out time to think, you allow your emotions to settle down and think rationally, you get a greater meaning of life and follow your way to success! Some soul searching always shows us the purpose of our actions, lives and relationships. It helps you to get a deeper insight in your mind, body, and soul.
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”- Cesare Pavese
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”- Victor Hugo
“Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.”- Sophia Loren
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”- Lao Tzu
“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”- Sun Tzu
“Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.”- C. S. Lewis
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”- Oscar Wilde
“Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.”- Neil Strauss
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”- Rick Riordan
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”- Gustave Flaubert
“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”- Brennan Manning
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”- Soren Kierkegaard
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”- Henrik Ibsen
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”- Buddha
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”- Aristotle
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
“Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”- Rumi
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”- Alexandre Dumas
“Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to.”- Lao Tzu
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”- Soren Kierkegaard
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”- Frederick Douglass
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”- Nikola Tesla
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”- William Faulkner
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”- Leo Tolstoy
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”- Michelle Williams
‘The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”- William Faulkner
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”- Peace Pilgrim
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”- Michel de Montaigne
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”- Francis Bacon
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”- Aldous Huxley
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”- Stephanie Perkins
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”- Anne Frank
“Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide.”- Bernard Kelvin Clive
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”- Mark Twain
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”- Lao Tzu
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”- Mark Twain
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”- Kahlil Gibran
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”- Maya Angelou
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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 P. Henson
“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
“Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.”- Martin Yan
“Every true and deep love is a sacrifice.”- Carl Jung
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”- Honoré de Balzac
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”- Plato
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”- Oscar Wilde
“When love itself comes to kiss you, don’t hold back.”- Rumi
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”- Honoré de Balzac
“Where there is love, there is no darkness.”- Burundi proverb
“If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” – Rumi
“Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.”- William Faulkner
“If love is a sickness, patience is the remedy.”- Cameroon proverb
“A letter from the heart can be read on the face.”- Kenyan proverb
“One who loves the vase, loves also what is inside.”- Kenyan proverb
“When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.”- Ethiopian proverb
“How do you spell ‘love’? You don’t spell it, you feel it.”- Winnie The Pooh
“If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?”- Tunisian proverb
“Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.”- Edgar Allan Poe
“The sun loved the moon so much, he died every night just to let her breath.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand!”- Mother Teresa
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”- Nicholas Sparks
“You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you.”- Nigerian proverb
“Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.”- Farooq A. Shiekh
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!”- Sophocles
“Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.”- William Shakespeare
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”- William Shakespeare
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”- Kahlil Gibran
“When you’re in love, truly in love, you never have to question it.”- Michael Faudet
“Love, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls.”- South African proverb
“Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river.”- Liberian proverb
“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”- Bertrand Russell
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”- Martin Luther King Jr
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”- Roy Croft
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”- Blaise Pascal
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”- Morrie Schwartz
“The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful.”- William Shatner
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”- Sir Arthur Pinero
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”- Bob Marley
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”- Lao Tzu
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”– Pablo Neruda
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”- Sam Keen
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzche
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”- Lao Tzu
“You were my first my last.There shall never be another you. You are a lifetime you are my life.”- Malika E. Nura
“If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy, even if its not with you.”- Lauren&L
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”- William Shakespeare
“Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it’s the only way to love life completely.”- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.”- Nigerian proverb
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”- Helen Keller
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.”- Victor Hugo
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”- Elbert Hubbard
“That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.”- Jim Morrison
“You never know how deep love grows till you lose it. And you never, never, never realize it’s true for you until it’s gone.”- Isaac Hayes
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”- Oscar Wilde
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep; the more I give to thee. The more I have, for both are infinite.”- William Shakespeare
“Love is tough. Love survives through the worst of situations, and thrives through hope. Even when things seem hopeless love will find it’s way.”- Malika E. Nura
“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 Hooks
“The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.”- Hermann J. Steinherr
“Sometime, when you least expect it, you’ll realize that someone loved you. And that means that someone can love you again! And that will make you smile.”- Homer Simpson
“Love is a garden where you keep sowing seeds and then one day you reap exactly what you have sown. It could be one flower at a time or a thorn at a time. Sow wisely.”- John Crows
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”- Honore de Balzac
“Once we recognize what we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.”- Audre Lorde
“The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.”- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”- Erich Fromm
Deep Quotes about Life
“The soul lives there in the silent breath.”- Rumi
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”- Kahlil Gibran
“What matters most in life is often invisible.”- Duane Elgin
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”- Elvis Presley
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”- Voltaire
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”- Victor Hugo
“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”- Toni Morrison
“That little spark you feel as you heal. That’s what life’s about.”
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”- Harper Lee
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”- Rosa Parks
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”- Victor Hugo
“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”- Jackson Brown Jr.
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”- Frank Herbert
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”- Anaïs Nin
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”- Oscar Wilde
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”- Omar Khayyam
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”- Rumi
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I belong to the opposition party, which is called life.”- Honoré de Balzac
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”- Victor Hugo
“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave.”- Dr. Wayne Dyer
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”- Anne Frank
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”- Seneca
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”- Albert Camus
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”- Bertrand Russell
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”- Martin Heidegger
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”- Mary Oliver
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”- Oscar Wilde
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”- Oscar Wilde
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”- Soren Kierkegaard
“Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty.’-Kilian Jornet
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”- Kahlil Gibran
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”- George Bernard Shaw
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”- Seneca
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”- Gustave Flaubert
“Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.”- William Faulkner
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to.”- Lao Tzu
“Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learned it by reading.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”- Oscar Wilde
“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.”- Sonia Gandhi
“Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.”- Robert Greene
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”- Soren Kierkegaard
“The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”- Nikola Tesla
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day it hasn’t been much of a day.”- John Wheeler
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”- Tom Wilson
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”- Martin Luther
“Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn it’s back on you.”- Jennifer Donnelly
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”- Joshua Marine
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”- Oscar Wilde
“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
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”- Albert Einstein
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”- Isaac Asimov
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”- Maya Angelou
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”- Bill Gates
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”- Albert Einstein
“What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make effort toward caring about it.”- Nokwethemba Nkosi
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.”- Michel Angelo
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”- Tony Robbins
“Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others. Not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.”
“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”- Stephen Furtick
“It’s not when you realise that nothing can help you – religion, pride, anything – it’s when you realise that you don’t need any aid.”- William Faulkner
“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity… I think that’s what being really human means.”- Gustave Flaubert
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I am Ananya, a professional speaker and I love motivating people and inspiring them to pursue their dreams. Sharing quotes, proverbs, and sayings of great authors to touch people's lives to make it better.