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Deep Quotes

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Last updated: June 4, 2020

500 Deep Quotes organized by Most Popular

“What consumes your mind, controls your life.”
— Mel Robbins
Tagged: Mind, mentality, Mental Health, Life, life advice
“It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.”
— Anis Mojgani, This is Not a Poem to Get Ass
Tagged: Love, Person, Waiting For Love, Waiting For Someone, Giving Love, loving every person, Self Worth, Inspirational, Poetry, poem

An excellent quote from motivational speaker Jim Rohn:

“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
— Jim Rohn, via Amazon
Tagged: Success, Life, Experiences, Becoming Awesome, becoming better, Inspirational
“I have this thought every second of my life - Why me? Not negatively, like 'Why did this terrible thing happen to me'? But more like 'Why did God choose me and what does He have in mind for me?'”
— Bethany Hamilton
Tagged: purpose, Questions, Questioning Life, Life & God
“She believed because it was that faith alone that gave her own life any kind of meaning.”
— Chinua Achebe, The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Belief, Faith, Meaning
“If you don’t find love for yourself first, someone else’s love for you will control your happiness.”
— Mel Robbins
Tagged: Love Yourself First, Self-Love, Happiness, Self-Care, Love Yourself, Life
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde(Wordsworth Library Collection)
Tagged: Wisdom, wise, Lessons, Learning, Life, Experience
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
— Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Tagged: Death, Fear, Fear Of Death, fear of life, Life
“Time will eventually destroy your body, but it will never destroy your voice. Inspiration is immortal.”
— Bianca Sparacino, What Time Will Do
Tagged: Creativity
“Love doesn’t necessarily care whether you like it. It can bring you enormous grief. But you would never trade it for any other experience.”
— Piers Anthony, Harpy Thyme
Tagged: Love, Experience, Consequences, Heartaches, Happiness
“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.”
— Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
Tagged: Love
“Whatever consumes your mind
controls your life.”
— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com
Tagged: Mind, Thinking, Thinking About Life, mind is powerful, Life, life advice
“I also think many of you are quick to say strange things when a professionally successful person says they are having a hard time. There is lots of “but you’re doing so well” as if you have any idea what someone is dealing with.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Loss, Grief, Mourning, Suicide Prevention, Suicide Awareness, How You Treat People, Professional Success, The Pain Unsaid
“I am starting to learn that maybe walking away is the best thing you can do for yourself, and for the person you love. Maybe walking away is you making peace with the fact that sometimes things and people and happiness changes. Maybe it is the bravest thing you can do. Maybe, when you walk away, you’re not making the biggest mistake of your life. Maybe, when you walk away, your life is just beginning.”
— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars
Tagged: Walking Away, Breaking Up, Moving On
“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.”
— Theodor Reik, Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions
Tagged: Love, Dream, Reality, Change
“Yoga and life are different ways of saying the same thing.””
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life
Tagged: yoga, Life, mindfulness
“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”
— Leo Buscaglia, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, Lover, Right Person, Person, find the person, Forever, Forever Love, differences, completeness, Life, Inspirational
“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”
— George Foreman, George Foreman Has Wisdom, Faith Lessons To Share
Tagged: forgiveness, Love, Friendship
“The dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life—the terror of art. ”
— Franz Kafka, Conversations with Kafka
Tagged: Dream, Life, Reality, Dreams
“Friendship is a two way street.”
— Unknown, Friendship is a Two-Way Street in Rider Program
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realised.”
— Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
“What is bad news to one person might be good news to someone else. And sometimes, what seems like good news might actually be something full of sadness, misery, and grief.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Vile Village
Tagged: Bad News, Good News, Sadness, Misery, Grief
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.”
— Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City, Season 2: Shortcomings
Tagged: Family, Importance of Family
“The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion: my eyes follow the lines on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them.”
— Maurice Merleau Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Tagged: Truth as Movement, Reading, Never Ending Story
“You don't know what love is
'Til you've learned the meaning of the blues
Until you've loved a love you've had to lose
You don't know what love is”
— John Coltrane, I Love You
Tagged: Love, Losing someone you love, Heart Break
“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.”
— Benjamin Harrison, North American Review
Tagged: Consumerism, America, rights, Equality
“Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
Tagged: Inspirational, Dreaming, Dreamers, Life Quotes
“So be authentic when you feel angry toward your lover or your beloved. Be authentic while you are in anger, and then with no repression, when the moment of love will come, when the mind will move to the other extreme, you will have a spontaneous flow. So with mind, take fighting as part of it. It is the very dynamism of the mind to work in polar opposites. So be authentic in your anger, be authentic in your fight, then you will be authentic in your life also.”
— Osho, The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
Tagged: Spirituality, Authenticity, Emotional Intelligence, How To Think, Philosophy, Mystics
“What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.”
— Edvard Munch
Tagged: Art, Defining Art, Life, Dissatisfaction, Meaning
“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”
— George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows / A Dance with Dragons(Song of Ice and Fire Series) (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Tagged: Madness, Insanity, Wisdom, Mindset, Words, Mind
“Conscious contact with love interrupts the pattern of fear and returns us to our true nature.”
— Gabby Bernstein
Tagged: Love, Love is Powerful, love defeats everything, Love Wins, love will always win
“Self love forces you to change while fear begs you to stay the same.”
— Ebonee Davis
Tagged: Self-Love, Fear, Self-Trust, Change, Life
“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....”
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tagged: Life, Living, Dream, End
“Let’s stop saying, “Yung iba nga diyan eh.” (Other people have it worse).  

Be content with your life not because you see poverty & misery in other people. Find happiness within you & stop comparing your advantage or privilege over others. Do you really have to look at their flaws to feel better about yourself?””
— M.A. Buendía  
Tagged: Filipino, Twitter Quotes, Perspective, Satisfied
“In life, always strive to be the kind of person who can see humans at their worst and still love them, because that is when they need love the most.”
— Nikita Gill, The Truest Friends Are Made of Flaws
Tagged: Friendship, Ideal You, Quote of the Moment
“My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see.”
— Andre Dubus, Meditations from a Movable Chair
Tagged: Imagination, Life, Living, Body, Soul
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.”
— Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression
Tagged: Art, Roots, Reflection, Uniqueness, difference, Meaning, Life
“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.”
— James K. Polk, Inaugural Address
Tagged: Fear, Tremble, Responsibilities, Peace, prosperity, Happiness
“"Have you ever had a dream so real
That you felt the life you live was fake"”
— Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap(Ft. Monty) – For My Team
Tagged: Dream, Reality, Imagination, goal, Life, Living, real, fake
“This life is nothing but a short, painful dream. Thanks to His guidance, I have made it through this far.”
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake: Stories
Tagged: religiosity, Spirituality, spiritual connection, God, Faith in God, belief in God, Life, life's sufferings
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
— Robert Muller, via Amazon
Tagged: Forgiving, forgiveness, act of forgiving, Love, forgiveness as form of love, Inspirational, goodness in forgiving
“Change takes courage.”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
Tagged: Change, Courage, Political Discourse, Empowering, Inspiring
“Beneath all the pain, the disappointment, the resentment and fear, there is love. Celebrate the love that you buried in your heart.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
Tagged: Love, Love is Powerful, Love is Magical, Optimism
“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.”
— Conscious Arrival, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, information, Drowning, starving, Wisdom
“Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.”
— Donald Trump, Playboy Interview: Donald Trump(1990)
Tagged: Friendship, Bad Times, Politics, Heritage, article
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers/Walden; Or, Life in the Woods/The Maine Woods/Cape Cod(Library of America)
Tagged: Friendship, Words, Language, Meaning
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.

It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.

Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.”
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Tagged: Cruelty, Fear, Weakness, Evil, Capricious, Malevolent, Nature
“The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.”
— Paulo Coelho
Tagged: life advice, Life, Don't Listen To Negativity, don't listen to others, Trust Yourself
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”
— Nikita Gill, via Tumblr
Tagged: broken, Deserved Love, Courage, Trauma
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Mind, Biology, Thinking, Brain