Top 200 Deep Quotes About Life (2025 Update)
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51. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

52. “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

53. “The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

54. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

— Paulo Coelho

55. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

— Anaïs Nin

56. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

57. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

58. “Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”

— Rumi

59. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

60. “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

61. “Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.”

— Marcus Aurelius

62. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

63. “Life is short. Be of use.”

— Robin S. Sharma

64. “For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

— Alan Watts

65. “Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brené Brown

66. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

67. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

— John Green

68. “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

— Rumi

69. “You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

70. “Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

71. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

— Brené Brown

72. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

73. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho

74. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”

— Lao Tzu

75. “Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”

— Alan Watts

76. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”

— Rumi

77. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

78. “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

79. “The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

80. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

82. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

83. “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”

— Thomas Merton

84. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

— Helen Keller

85. “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

86. “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.”

— C. S. Lewis

87. “Life is long, if you know how to use it.”

— Seneca

88. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan Watts

89. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

— Maya Angelou

90. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

91. “With our thoughts we make the world.”

— Buddha

92. “Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

93. “That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.”

— C.G. Jung

94. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

95. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts

96. “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

— Anthony de Mello

97. “Spend your brief moment according to nature’s law, and serenely greet the journey’s end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

98. “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

99. “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

— Robertson Davies

100. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus