Tyler Mullins

60 Deep Quotes That Will Make You Question Everything

"You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth." - Haruki Murakami
Marisa Donnelly
December 22, 2016
“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Letting Go, Life, Moving On, Acceptance, Knowledge
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Escapism, Growing Pains, Finding Yourself
“Life is not a series of problems to be solved, it’s a journey that you should be fascinated by.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Life, Problem Solving, Life As A Journey, Inspirational
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
— Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Tagged: Peace, Art, Love, Compassion
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”
— Gilda Radner, It's Always Something
Tagged: Perfect Ending, Longing For Perfection, Accepting Life, Acceptance, Life Lies In The Unknown, The Unknown, Accepting The Unknown, Embracing The Unknown, Embracing Change
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Want, Desire, Lust, Tragedy, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu, A quote by Lao Tzu
Tagged: mindfulness, Understanding, Outlooks, Positivity, Self love
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Mindset, Perspective, Change
“I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Life Truths
“Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.”
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Tagged: Having A Voice, Life's Purpose, purpose, Meaning Of Life, Cause
“If we keep our heroes at a safe distance, they cannot disappoint us with the banal business of being people.

But part of growing up is accepting that everybody is people.”
— Aishwarya Subramanyam, I Get So Annoyed When 'Cool' Young Women Say They Are Not Feminists: Arundhati Roy
Tagged: Hero, Growing Pains, Disappointment
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another.”
— Helen Keller, The Story Of My Life
Tagged: Death, What It Feels Like To Die
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
— Paulo Coehlo, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Love, Sacrifice, Destiny, Challenge, Life
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Quotes for Public Speakers
Tagged: Communication, Relationship
“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Little House On The Prairie
Tagged: Best Of Children's Books, Best Day, Children's Book Quotes, The Little House Series, Courage When Things Go Wrong, Honest And Truthful
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tagged: Beginnings, Endings, Time
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Tagged: Life, purpose, Meaning
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: live, Die, Life, Learning
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Tagged: Time
“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Thanks for the Memories
Tagged: Gratitude, Celebration, Appreciation, Joy, Thankfulness
“Those who know do not speak.
Those who speak do know.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Life
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
— John Lennon, The John Lennon Letters
“How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Seize The Day, Life, Today, Control
“Today is the only day in which we have any power.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Today, Power, Seize The Day
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Seize The Day, Problems, Happiness
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw, The Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw (42 Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw Including Pygmalion, Mrs Warren's Profession, Man And Superman, Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, & More)
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
— John Lennon, The John Lennon Letters
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: chances, Adventure, Risk
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”
— C. Joybell C., The Conversation of Merachefet: A Book of Secrets