100 Deep Quotes About Life That Make You Think (2022)

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Deep Quotes: “In this post, you will discover great deep quotes by successful people. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.”

“Whatever your personal philosophy about life is, one of these profound quotes is sure to resonate with you.”

Here is the list of the 100 inspirational Deep Quotes :

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Deep Quotes

1. “There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.” -Oscar Wilde

2. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Buddha

3. “Never lose sight of the face that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people.”– Barbara Bush

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

5. “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

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

7. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
–Epictetus

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

9. “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

10. “I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.” -Ann Richards

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

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

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Short Deep Quotes

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

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

15. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” -Mark Twain

16. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hill

17. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ~ Stephen King

18. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”
— Audrey Hepburn

19. “Being happy never goes out of style.” -Lilly Pulitzer

20. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller

21. “Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.” -Dr. Seuss

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

23. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

24. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” -Rosa Parks

25. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin

26. “I don’t go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head.” -Princess Diana

27. “The time is always right to do what is right.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

28. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” -Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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Deep Quotes About Life

31. “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

32. “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

33. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

35. “Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
– Unknown

36. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”-Søren Kierkegaard

37. “It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein

38. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius

39. “The two most important days of your life are the day that you’re born and the day that you find out why.” -Mark Twain

40. “Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn it’s back on you.”― Jennifer Donnelly

Deep Thoughts Quotes

41. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” Dolly Parton

42. “All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” – Baruch Spinoza

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

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

45. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller

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Powerful Deep Quotes

46. “Holding onto your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” -Buddha

47. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer

48. “Education is not the learning of the facts, but the training of the mind to think.” -Albert Einstein

49. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost

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

51. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Maya Angelou

52. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
– Heraclitus

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

54. “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” -George Bernard Shaw

55. “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” -Elbert Hubbard

56. “If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” -Toni Morrison

57. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
– Martha Washington

58. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

59. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

60. “Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you from wanting them.”
― Holly Black

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Inspirational Deep Quotes

61. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
― Ranata Suzuki

62. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

64. “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire

65. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”– Madam C.J Walker

66. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks

67. “We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.” -Talmud

68. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”
— Oprah Winfrey

69. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— Malala Yousafzai

70. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault

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Deep Quotes That Make You Think

71. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

72. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -John Wooden

74. “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” -Flannery O’Connor

75. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

76. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” -Harper Lee

77. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” -J.K. Rowling

78. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball

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

80. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” ~ Serena Williams

Deep Quotes to Inspire You

81. “Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.”– Simone Biles

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

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

84. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

85. “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn

86. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell

87. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain

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

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

90. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Deep Quotes about love

91. “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” -James Baldwin

92. “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.” -Johnny Cash

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

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

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

96. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley

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

98. “Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell

99. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”— James Baldwin

100. “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