Deep quotes that make you think and see life different

1. “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

2. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

3. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”― Albert Einstein

4. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

5. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine

6. “Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi

7. “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” – Martin Heidegger

8. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

9. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou 

10. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

If you’re ready to look past the surface, reach for these deep quotes to allow you to see more meaning and purpose in life. These deep quotes about life can elevate your mind to see past the necessary trials and tribulations on your journey and reflect on the things that matter most.

We need to devote time to thinking to allow us to ponder our plans, actions, and decisions.

With all the pressures of life, spending time to think brings lots of benefits. It’s vital for your success and well-being.  Thinking time allows you to understand yourself better, to make smarter decisions and to see things differently. It also helps reduce time waste, reduce stress and increase your confidence and happiness.

No matter how busy your schedule might be, set aside some time in your calendar to think of new ideas and to brainstorm ways to push through your problems. To maximize your thinking time, set goals for those open hours and use powerful questions to encourage deep thinking.

All in all, devoting time to think will allow you to maximize your Everyday Power and operate at your full potential. In that respect, here are some inspirational, wise, and powerful deep quotes, deep sayings, and deep proverbs that’ll make you think and inspire you to look at life differently.

Don’t forget to also read these deep meaningful quotes to help you move forward on your journey. We also have a selection of cute thinking of you quotes to help you express how you feel about the people you love. Be sure to read that as well.

Deep quotes about life

11. “Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn it’s back on you.”― Jennifer Donnelly
If you’re enjoying these quotes, you’ll love our collection of dark quotes that will motivate you to keep going and encourage you that things will be OK.

12. “Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.” – Robert Greene

13. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

14. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins

15. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

16. “What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make effort toward caring about it.” -Nokwethemba Nkosi

17. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

18. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

19. “If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

20. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C. S. Lewis

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Deep quotes that make you think

21. “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”― Michelle Williams

22. “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” – Henrik Ibsen

23. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” – Anne Frank

24. “Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews

25. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

26. “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

27. “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

28. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

29. “I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.” – Mitch Hedberg

30. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Deep quotes about love and friendship

31. “The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful.” – William Shatner

32. “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

33. “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

34. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus
If you’re enjoying these quotes, you’ll love our collection of inspirational quotes for friends to show just how much they mean to you.

35. “If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” – Rumi

36. “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

37. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ~ Bob Marley (see other thoughtful Bob Marley quotes)

38. “Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.” ~ Doe Zantamata

39. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

40. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

Deep inspirational quotes

41. “You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.” ― Ava Dellaira

42. “It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.” – Bryant H. McGill

43. “The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

44. “Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.” – Albert Camus

45. “Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

46. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” – Alexandre Dumas

47. “Today me will live in the moment, unless it is unpleasant, in which case I will eat a cookie.” – Cookie Monster

48. “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” ~ Bertrand Russell

49. “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” – William Wordsworth

50. “It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata

Also check out these LGBTQ quotes celebrating pride and love.

Deep quotes to make you reflect and see life from a different angle

51. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee

52. “What matters most in life is often invisible.” — Duane Elgin

53. “For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

55. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”- Stephen Furtick

56. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” –Rosa Parks

57. “Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” — Jackson Brown Jr.

58. “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

59. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

60. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov

Deep quotes to help you set perspective in your life

61. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

62. “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Tom Wilson

63. “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

64. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

65. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley
If you’re enjoying these quotes, you’ll love our collection of Elvis Presley quotes that illustrate the man behind the music we all know and love.

66. “If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” – Toni Morrison

67. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

68. “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ― Bill Gates

69. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” – Peace Pilgrim

70. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

Deep quotes that make you think in new ways

71. “The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.” – Alexandre Dumas

72. “People do not lack strength; they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

73. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

74. “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

75. “Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices.” – Rick Rubin

76. “You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” – Beverly Rubik

77. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi

78. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” – Nikola Tesla
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of The Secret quotes to help you manifest your dreams.

79. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” – Edward Abbey

80. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

81. “Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss

82. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner

83. “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

84. “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

85. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” – Kahlil Gibran

Deep quotes about love and life

86. “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
― Sun Tzu

87. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

88. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

89. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

90. “The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”
― Brennan Manning

91. “Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren

92. “Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
― Aldous Huxley

93. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” – Kahlil Gibran

94. “Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

95. “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”– Michel de Montaigne

Deep quotes to inspire and motivate

96. “Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless.”― Tommy Wallach

97. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

98. “Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.”― Mohammed Ali Bapir

99. “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
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100. “Don’t use yesterday’s state of mind, to make today’s decision.”― C. Nzingha Smith

101. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”— John A. Shedd

102. “Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”― Oscar Wilde

103. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.– Nora Roberts

104. “Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.”― Nina Guilbeau

105. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Kierkegaard

Deep quotes to elevate your perspective

106. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”— L.M. Montgomery

107. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~ Dr. Seuss

108. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”— Confucius
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109. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

110. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard

111. “You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

112. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

113. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland

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114. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

115. “When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.” – Mandy Hale

Deep quotes to broaden your thoughts

116. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
— Aesop

117. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

118. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran

119. “Life is like a piano. The white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also make music.” – Unknown

120. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz

121. “What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike

122. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

123. “All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
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124. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

125. “You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.” – Annie Lennox

Deep quotes that will broaden your thoughts

126. “Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to.” – Lao Tzu

127. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
—Muhammad Ali
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128. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther

129. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”—Roy T. Bennett

130. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi

131. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan

132. “What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.” – Nicholas Nassim Taleb

133. “The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or ever touched. They must be felt with the heart.”—Helen Keller

134. “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – William Faulkner

135. “When you train your eyes to see the magic and miracles in the little things, you open the door for your whole life to shift.”—Carol Woodliff
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Deep quotes to inspire you

136. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel

137. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs

138. “I know all about how one moment could haunt you for the rest of your life. How it consumes you and every facet of your life.” – Micalea Smeltzer

139. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman

140. “You shouldn’t have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.” – Daniel Quinn

141. “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” – C.S. Lewis

142. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

143. “Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
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144. “I’ve hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it’s the only way to deal with things.” – Alice Feeney

145. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Deep quotes that will change the way you think

146. “The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.” – Napoleon Hill

147. “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” – Dennis Rodman (see more quotes by Dennis Rodman)

148. “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”-
Jimmy Carter

149. “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

150. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin

151. “The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” – Carl Jung

152. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca

153. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

154. “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” – Francis Bacon

155. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson

Deep quotes to elevate your mind

156. “Our lives improve only when we take chances…and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” – Walter Anderson

157. “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain

158. “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

159. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey

160. “We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau

161. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

162. “In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines.” – Mike Dolan

163. “Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernandez

164. “Your way of thinking affects your life very deeply. So think positive and be positive.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

165. “We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” — Confucius

Deep quotes that will make you think in new ways

166. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein

167. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

168. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw

169. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” – Theodore Roosevelt

170. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne

171. “If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.” – Jim Kwik

172. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit

173. “Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.” – Dave Ramsey
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174. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl
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175. “No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” – William Hazlitt

Deep quotes to expand your mind

176. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde

177. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

178. “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.” – Barbara Kingsolver

179. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino

180. “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.” – Ann Hood

181. “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” – Oscar Wilde

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to check out our collection of Oscar Wilde quotes from the iconic author.

182. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

183. “Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

184. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

185. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

Deep quotes that will make you think different

186. “When you find no solution to a problem, it’s probably not a problem to be solved, but rather a truth to be accepted.” – Unknown

187. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry van Dyke

188. “Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.” – Bryant H. McGill

189. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Ernest Hemingway quotes from the iconic author.

190. “It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.” – Bryant H. McGill

191. “Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you.” – Robert Greene

192. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” — Bill Keane

193. “Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” – Friederich Nietsche

194. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey

195. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung

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Deep quotes that will make you a better person

196. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein

197. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”– C.S. Lewis

198. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”― Malala Yousafzai

199. “The greatest mistake you can ever make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” – Ellen Hubbard
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200. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”– William G.T. Shedd

201. “It has been said that a person may have ten years of experience, or one year of experience repeated ten times.” – Yukiso Yamamoto

202. “Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.” – Tom Fleming

203. “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” – Buddha

204. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

205. ”Today I do what others won’t, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don’t.” – Jerry Rice

More deep quotes and sayings

206. “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” – Voltaire

207. “Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib

208. “Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” – Anonymous

209. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling

210. “The idea is to die young as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu

211. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

212. “We choose to go to the moon and do these other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

213. “Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

214. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way

215. “The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.” – Stephen King

Which of these deep quotes was your favorite?

Although life is busy and full of pressures, you need time to think and reflect upon what’s important. Our bodies and minds were not wired to operate under constant distractions, stress and information overload.

So, for us to achieve peak performance and live a fulfilling life, each of us needs to set aside a regular contemplative time in which to just think. Hopefully, these deep quotes have made you reflect and see life from a different angle.

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