188 Short Deep Quotes

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1. For he who holds the joy robs the many. Robert Rivers
   
   
   


2. There is no challenge or meaning or purpose to life without the decay of time. H.H. Hopalotomus
   
   
3. Freedom is not only a matter that relates to the body but also to the mind. B. C. Artworst
   
   Freedom to think what you want is important. However, more important is the opportunity to put into motion that which first starts as a thought. As well, freedom in regards to your body also means that you are able to do what you want but healthy choices are at the forefront of well-being.
   
   
4. The concept of change does not rest external to the being but is predicated on the inner self recognizing the need to act. Rory R. Cuphist
   
   
   

5. How is life measured? Is it by the passage of time? Or, is it by the very instantaneous moments that life is paraded in our minds eye? Annabelle Marie Haines
   
   
6. Values are the building blocks of civilization given to shame and destroy the follies of foolish humans. Freddy J. W. Parkes
   
   In order for a civilization to move forward, indeed, even to survive, means that a solid core of beneficial and trustworthy values must exist amidst the evil that is inherent in all of mankind. Make no mistake, societies will fall and eventually fade away completely without solid and honest and moral values just as did the Roman empire in the ancient world.
   
   

7. The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus
   
   
8. Time must stand still before human kindness can catch up. Theodore W. Higgingsworth
   
   Time has a bad habit of revealing the decay in humans long before their goodness shines. It is not that humans have no generosity, or compassion, or goodness; it is rather that the human race seems to be willing and able to revel in those behaviors that cause harm much sooner than those behaviors that attempt to overcome or repair that which has been hurt, injured or destroyed.
   
   
9. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
   
   


10. You can't see without the vision of the past. Byron R. Pulsifer
    
    
11. Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
    
12. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy
    
    
13. People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo
    
    
14. Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Euripides
    
    
15. To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde
    
    
16. The best winner of the battle is the one who remains calm. Byron R. Pulsifer
    
    
17. Be – don’t try to become. Osho
    
    
18. I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. Phyllis Theroux


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Most Famous Deep Quotes and Thoughts by Carl Jung



19. Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. Carl Jung
    
    
20. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Carl Jung
    
    
21. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
    
    
22. Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung
    
    
23. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth. Carl Jung
    
    


24. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. Carl Jung
    
    
25. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. Carl Jung
    
    
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Short Wise Deep Quotes and Words of Wisdom for Life



26. I have come to believe that our own excuses are one of our biggest obstacles to friendship. Christine Hoover
    
    
27. By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Socrates
    
    
28. If you want to grow old, and grow old healthily, you need to nurture your relationships more than any other part of your life. Heidi Tempest
    
    
29. In order to have a silver-lining disposition about life we need to have an unbeatable, resilient, and never-ending hope. Byron R. Pulsifer
    
    
30. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Socrates
    
    
    
31. God speaks to those who speak to Him in reverence and love. Byron R. Pulsifer
    
    
32. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato
    
    
33. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle
    
    
34. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates
    
    
    
35. Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. Jack Kerouac
    
    
36. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka
    
    
37. To thine own self be true. William Shakespeare
    
    
38. Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare
    
    
39. What labels me, negates me. Soren Kierkegaard
    
    
40. Rest in reason; move in passion. Kahlil Gibran
    
    
41. To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus
    
    
42. Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. Victor Hugo
    
    
43. Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. Victor Hugo
    
    
44. Success is an iceberg. Unknown Author
    
    


45. Life begins where fear ends. Osho
    
    
46. The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. Alexandre Dumas
    
    
47. Passion is born deaf and dumb. Honoré de Balzac
    
    
48. Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche
    
    


49. The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. Dejan Stojanovic
    
    
50. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. Rumi
    
    
51. Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert
    
    
52. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
    
    
53. We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. Whoopi Goldberg
    
    
54. Leave no stone unturned. Euripides
    
    
55. Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. Bertrand Russell
    
    
56. Life is a constant process of dying. Arthur Schopenhauer
    
    
    
57. The darker the night, the brighter the stars. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
    
58. Beauty will save the world. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
    
59. Sin is geographical. Bertrand Russell
    
    
60. What worries you, masters you. John Locke
    
    
61. The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner
    
    
62. Don’t be a writer. Be writing. William Faulkner
    
    
63. Appreciate your family each day - don't wait until they are old and gray be sure to say I love you Catherine Pulsifer
    
    
64. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
    
    
65. Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. Osho


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66. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe
    
    
67. The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Nikola Tesla
    
    
68. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens
    
    
69. Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
    
70. Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. Euripides
    
    
71. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde
    
    
72. If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Soren Kierkegaard
    
    
73. All is well in the world as when ignorance is expressed through a veil of deceit. Byron R. Pulsifer
    
    
74. The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Carlie Munger
    
    
75. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
    
    
76. Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good. William Faulkner
    
    
77. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud
    
    
78. Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides
    
    
79. All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw
    
    
80. Some people are more certain of everything than I am of nothing. Robert Rubin
    
    
81. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein
    
    
82. The prettiest eyes have cried the most. Unknown Author
    
    
83. It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
    
    
84. I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe
    
    
85. If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe
    
    
86. The kindest hearts have felt the most pains. Unknown Author
    
    
87. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Edgar Allan Poe
    
    
88. I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla
    
    
89. The last 29 days of the month are the toughest! Nikola Tesla
    
    
90. It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell
    
    
91. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station ... William Faulkner
    
    
92. Did you ever stop to think, and then forget to start again? Winnie The Pooh
    
    
93. They’re funny things, accidents. You never have them till you’re having them. Winnie The Pooh
    
    
94. We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. Andrew, The Breakfast Club
    
    
95. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde
    
    
96. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
    
    
97. Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain
    
    
98. Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most. Mark Twain
    
    
99. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Neils Bohr
    
    
100. God knows, I prefer people with anxieties, whose tomorrow is threatened by uncertainty. Albert Einstein
     
     
101. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
     
     
102. He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace. Leo Tolstoy
     
     
103. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Mikhail Bakunin
     
     
104. One day we will be dead. But today I’ll give it my best not to blame, complain, drain. Today I’ll give my best not to regret or forget. James Altucher
     
     
105. The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer. Terence McKenna
     
     
106. If it is not necessary to decide, it is necessary not to decide. Lord Acton
     
     
107. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
     
     
108. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe
     
     
109. There is no truth. There is only perception. Gustave Flaubert
     
     
110. We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. ... It will all be gone. Naval Ravikant
     
     
111. Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friederich Nietsche
     
     
112. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke
     
     
113. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran
     
     
114. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Arthur Schopenhauer
     
     
115. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo
     
     
116. As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. Victor Hugo
     
     
117. To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
     
     
118. Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
     
     
119. I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honoré de Balzac
     
     
120. What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? Soren Kierkegaard
     
     
121. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. Winnie The Pooh
     
     
122. I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing. Soren Kierkegaard
     
     
123. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. Euripides
     
     
124. Deep thought happens when our experience fails us. Byron R. Pulsifer
     
     
125. Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you. Robert Greene
     
     
126. Love is trembling happiness. Kahlil Gibran
     
     
127. The courses of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare


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Short Deep Sayings About Friendships



128. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
     
129. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford
     
     
130. I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it. Edgar Allan Poe
     
     
131. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
     
     
132. Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
     
     
133. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings
     
     
134. You will never be a true friend until you completely abandon selfishness. Rosy Lee Anderson
     
     
135. Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. Jacques Delille
     
     
136. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. Yassir Arafat
     
     
137. Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty. Sicilian Proverb
     


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Short Deep and Profoundly Meaningful Thoughts



138. Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. Polish Proverb
     
     
139. The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Edward R. Murrow
     
     
140. Gazing at the stars will not save you from the abyss at your feet. Dr. Idel Dreimer
     
     
141. Just as the old, looking back, idealize the past, so the young, looking forward, idealize the future. Illusion is the stuff of memory — and is at the heart of hope. Dr. Idel Dreimer
     
     
142. Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Börne
     
     
143. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J. Lec
     
     
144. We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. Albert Szent-Györgyi
     
     
145. Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee
     
     
146. When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist Proverb
     
     
147. A gun gives you the body, not the bird. Henry David Thoreau
     
     
148. Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. S.A. Sachs
     
     
149. Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. Thomas Carlyle
     
     
150. Who depends on another man's table often dines late. John Ray
     
     
151. He who despairs the failures in life does not know the path to success. Byron R. Pulsifer
     
     
152. The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. Zen Saying
     
     
153. We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. William Hazlitt
     
     
154. When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. Antonio Porchia
     
     
155. The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. Evelyn Waugh
     
     
156. The throat thinks of more than just thirst. Terri Guillemets
     
     
157. You are in the perfect position to get there from here. Abraham–Hicks
     
     
158. It's always Now. Eckhart Tolle
     
     
159. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
     
     
160. A change in course is only as good as the inner peace it gives. Theodore W. Higgingsworth
     
     
161. I am changed forever by the realization of never. Terri Guillemets
     
     
162. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine
     
     
163. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
     
     
164. No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. Zen Proverb
     
     
165. Without love the world is void. Kate Summers
     
     
166. There is no end in sight unless a beginning is finished. Robert Rivers
     
     
167. Not to be able to see a resolution is not blindness but ignorance. Kate Summers
     
     
168. The more man mediates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. Confucius
     
     
169. The best part of the end of the day is the sleep that prepares for the optimism of tomorrow. Theodore W. Higgingsworth
     
     

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Short Deep Quotes That Express Love



170. When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. Leo Tolstoy
     
     
171. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. Le Guin
     
     
172. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. Rainer Maria Rilke
     
     
173. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
     
     
174. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett
     
     
175. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
     
     
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Wise Deep Quotes on Life's Challenges

176. Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. Tryon Edwards
     
     
177. 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
     
     
178. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
     
     
179. Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
     
     
180. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right. Marilyn Monroe
     
     
181. 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
     
     
182. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Euripides
     
     
183. Time is a created thing. To say I don’t have time is like saying, I don’t want to. Lao Tzu
     
     
184. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa
     
     
185. Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Burr
     
     
186. All is well in the world when in love. Unknown Author
     
     
187. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo
     
     
188. I choose not to hear when insanity takes the place of truth. Theodore W. Higgingsworth