1. Home
    2.  › 
  2. Pages
    3.  › 
  3. Deep Quotes

Deep Quotes

Deep Quotes

2,374 Deep Quotes organized by Most Popular

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”
— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of a Youth
Tagged: self, seeker, Self & Identity, self awareness, Self Acceptance, Self Worth, Self Confidence, Self-Esteem, Knowledge, Intelligence, Intuition, Inspirational
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Khalil Gibran, A quote by Kahlil Gibran
Tagged: Anxiety, Stress, worry, Future, Desire, Control
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be ‘over it’ by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not anything that was genuinely, mind..soul-crushingly life altering.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Loudness, Noise, Talkative
“You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
— Warren Buffett, Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
Tagged: Long-Term Capital, Comparing Yourself To Others, The Emporer Has No Clothes, What Happens After The Bull Market
“Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?”
— Mary Oliver, West Wind
Tagged: Life, Living, Living Fully, Being Alive, Life and Existence
“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”
— Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind
Tagged: beauty, Forest, Extraordinary, Word, Aesthetic, Experience, Mystery, Awe, Wonder, Nature, Natural, Life, plants
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Perspective, Happiness, Optimism, Wisdom, Simplicity, Minimalism
“What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.”
— Catherine Ponder, Decoding The Secret
Tagged: Life, Relationships, Love, Attraction, Law OF Attraction
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, To Laugh Often And Much Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson- Poem Hunter
Tagged: How To Live A Better Life
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
— Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild: With a New Preface by the Author
Tagged: Nature, Home, Peace, Comfortability
“I do not see the world at all; I invent it.”
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
Tagged: Own World, Fate, World Creation, Inventing New Worlds
“What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
— Pablo Picasso, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics(California Studies in the History of Art)
Tagged: actions, Intentions
“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”
— Sara Teasdale
Tagged: Appreciation, Gratitude, Optimism, Mindset
“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. ”
— Paul Valery
Tagged: Courage, self awareness, Truth
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
— Lingholic, A goal is a dream with a deadline- Lingholic
Tagged: Objectives, Dreams
“I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Love, Giving
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
— Eartha Kitt, I'm Still Here
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Independence, Love, Love Yourself, Self-Love
“You can have all the [dating] criteria and standards in the world, but what you draw to you is what you are. If you’re not abundant in love and self-esteem and self-respect and self-worth in [your heart], you’re not going to draw somebody that’s the same way.”
— Iyanla Vanzant, All you are
Tagged: Self-Love, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Dating
“Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.”
— Halle Berry, How Halle Berry Fixed Her 'Picker'
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Relationships, Friends, Family, struggles
“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”
— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
Tagged: Tolerant, rights, Belief, Compassion, Understanding
“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”
— Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Tagged: Self-Reliance, Self-Trust, Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem, self awareness, self-absorption, Self Care, self control, Self Construction, Self & Identity, self, Self Acceptance, true self
“We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth. Look around you–what you see is not your environment, it is you.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Falling in Love with the Earth by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Tagged: Earth, World, Nature and Nurture, Environmentalism, change in thinking, people and nature, self and nature, be one with nature, Self-awareness, Self-Care, mindfulness
“If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?”
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
Tagged: Fear, Courage, Doubts
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Death, Living
“I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Tagged: Appreciation, little things, Wind, Life, Reflection, grateful
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
— Albert Einstein, Einstein on Race and Racism
Tagged: Equality, Empathy, kindness, sympathy
“I feel a rush of gratitude so strong, it feels almost like love.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train
Tagged: Gratitude, thankful, Intense emotions, Love
“When I’m in nature, everything falls into place. I’m just one tiny piece of a big jigsaw puzzle and I like that.”
— Bjork, Björk on Twitter
Tagged: Nature, Passion, calm, Tranquility, Peace
“It’s amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.”
— Robert Cormier, Heroes
Tagged: Heartbreak, Irony, Broken Heart, Pain, Sadness
“...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?”
— David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
Tagged: Grief
“I wasn’t thinking clearly. You never are after a breakup. You have to pretend that everything is fine when secretly you’re dying a thousand deaths a minute.”
— Ryan O’Connell, I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves to Get through Our Twenties
Tagged: Heartbreak
“Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you.”
— Michael Bernard Beckwith
Tagged: Mindset, Gratitude, meditation
“I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.”
— Bernard Lowe, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Stray
Tagged: Virtual Reality, Our Desires For Experience
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality.”
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
Tagged: Archive Fever, Photography, Unreality of Imagery
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Tagged: Death, Belief, Living, Fear, scary
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Tagged: Gratitude, Expectation, Duty
“I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?”
— Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs
Tagged: Misunderstood, Unsaid Things, Real Self, Introvert
“No, I don’t think being overweight is healthy. Yes, I believe it is something to work on. But how many dispositions of malice, how many fundamentally terrible personality traits do we not treat in this same way? Many fat people become fat because they hate themselves and are paralyzed in this space. We are all faulty, we all need to understand how to be gracious with ourselves, how to move forward bit by bit.”
— Chrissy Stockton, You’re Allowed To Be Fat
Tagged: Why Aren't We Perfect?, Cast the First Stone, The Plank In Your Own Eye, Quote of the Moment
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.”
— Thom Yorke, From The Bedroom To The Universe
Tagged: Alone, Attention, Wants, desires, Contradictions
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
— Plato, Plato: Complete Works
Tagged: Life, Darkness, Men, Light, Philosophical