Sometimes a really meaningful quote makes you stop and think about things in a way that you haven’t done before. Here’s a selection of deep quotes that do just that.
Deep Quotes To Make You Stop And Think
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einsten
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
Unknown
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
Jalaluddin Rumi
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
Lao Tzu
Being able to depend on someone doesn’t mean you’re dependent on them.
Sarah Rees Brennan
A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.
Atticus
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
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
Paulo Coelho
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
Margaret Shepard
My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.
Philippos Syrigos
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they’ll never be you.
Tanni Sattar
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
Richard Dawkins
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Francis Bacon
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
Charles Bukowski
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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