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118 Deep Quotes That Will Change How You See The World

Ever found yourself lost in thought, pondering the meaning of life? You’re not alone! Deep quotes have a way of stopping us in our tracks, making us question everything we thought we knew. 

As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Let’s dive into a world of profound wisdom that can change how you see the world.

Deep Quotes About Life Being Short

1. “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany

2. “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

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

4. “Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain

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

6. “Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.” – B. Alan Wallace

7. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha

8. “Life is short. Focus on what matters and let go of what doesn’t.” – Unknown

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9. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

10. “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” – Roy T. Bennett

Beautiful Deep Quotes

11. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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

13. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” – Kahlil Gibran

14. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

15. “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” – Carl Sagan

16. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel

17. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank

18. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein

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19. “Beauty is the illumination of your soul.” – John O’Donohue

20. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou

Aesthetic Deep Quotes

21. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

22. “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

23. “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” – Rabindranath Tagore

24. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

25. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

26. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

27. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

28. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

29. “The world is but a canvas to our imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau

30. “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

Deep Quotes About Love

31. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

32. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

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33. “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

34. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

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35. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks

36. “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” – Paulo Coelho

37. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks

38. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez

39. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

40. “The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Short Deep Quotes About Wisdom

41. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

42. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

43. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

44. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

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

46. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius

47. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

48. “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss

49. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

50. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep Quotes About Being Happy

51. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

52. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn

53. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

54. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones

55. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

56. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan

57. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli

58. “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.” – Unknown

59. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale

60. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

Deep Quotes About Enjoying Life

61. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

62. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

63. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

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

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

66. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings

67. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

68. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

69. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep Quotes About Family

70. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

71. “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” – Charles Kuralt

72. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt

73. “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers

74. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

75. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

76. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana

77. “The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended – and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.” – Robert Frost

78. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach

79. “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard

Deep Quotes About Friends

80. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

81. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” – C.S. Lewis

82. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

83. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

84. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

85. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius

86. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison

87. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson

88. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

89. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides

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90. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

91. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

92. “Die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

93. “Aspire to inspire before we expire.” – Unknown

94. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

95. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

96. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

97. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha

98. “All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

99. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

Deep Quotes About God

100. “God is love.” – 1 John 4:8

101. “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.” – John Lennon

102. “God has no religion.” – Mahatma Gandhi

103. “God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.” – Alfred Jarry

104. “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.” – Voltaire

105. “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” – Oscar Wilde

106. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa

107. “God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.” – Saint Augustine

108. “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – William Shakespeare

109. “God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.” – Pope Francis

Deep Quotes About Peace

110. “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

111. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa

112. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein

113. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

114. “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan

115. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela

116. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

117. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

118. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

As we’ve journeyed through these deep quotes, we’ve barely scratched the surface of human wisdom. 

So, which of these quotes spoke to you the most? Remember, the power of these words lies not just in reading them, but in how they resonate with your soul and inspire action. 

Let it be the spark that ignites your own journey of self-discovery and deep thinking!

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