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
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
— Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”
— Shannon Alder, Fanpage
Tagged: Perfection, broken
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
— Shannon Alder, Fanpage
Tagged: human, Being human
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now
Tagged: Osho
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
— Osho, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now
Tagged: Osho
“I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.”
— Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
Tagged: Osho
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Tagged: Tom Robbins
“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Tagged: Tom Robbins
“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Tagged: Tom Robbins
“We need to move away from this constant need of coming across as calm, cool and collected. WE WEREN’T BUILT TO BE CALM, COOL, AND COLLECTED. If we were, it wouldn’t feel so fucking exhausting all the time. It would, you know, come naturally to us. You know what comes naturally to human beings though? Being open, being messy, being raw, being unfiltered, having lots of feelings.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Need To Go After The Things You Want
Tagged: emotions, Feelings, Love
“Grief can destroy you -- or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours: An Odd Thomas Novel
Tagged: Grief, Relationships, Love, Life
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
— Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Tagged: Love, Pain, Fear
“It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Tagged: strength, Being Strong, Endurance, Independence
“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say, 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
— Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
Tagged: obvious, blinded
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
— Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations 1st Edition
Tagged: Power Of Science, Question Everything, Life's Questions, Science
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
— John Lennon, Fear and Love
Tagged: Fear And Love, Motivating Forces, Question Everything, Life Motivation
“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.”
— Will Rogers, Albuquerque Journal, 1975
Tagged: Money, Impressing Others, Irony, Life's Irony
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
— Jim Morrison, Interview
Tagged: Pain, Human Experience, Truth About Being Human, Truth About Life
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Truth About Love, Human Experience, Human Existence, Making Change, Adventure
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
— Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
Tagged: Truth About Life, Listening To Others, Reality
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life With A Woodpecker
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Life's Questions, Limitations, Happiness
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Truth About Being Human, Course Of Life
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Holy Bible,(KJV)
Tagged: Bible, Time, Life's Purpose, Truth About Life, Faith
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
— Mary Manin Morrissey, Conditions of the Heart: Some Promises Need to Be Broken
Tagged: Truth About Life, Truth About Being Human, Letting Go, Let Go, Release, Moving Forward
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Borges, between History and Eternity
Tagged: Infinity, Truth About Life, Existence, Being human, Death, Awakening
“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
— Goldie Hawn, Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud
Tagged: Fate, Avoiding Fate, Life's Purpose, Question Everything
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
— Jack London, Call Of The Wild
Tagged: Living, Truth About Life, Ecstasy Of Living, Highest Point In Life