Top 200 Deep Quotes About Life (2025 Update)
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101. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

102. “Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

— John Wooden

103. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green

104. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

— Jean-Luc Picard

105. “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”

— Paulo Coelho

106. “Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

107. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

108. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

109. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

— Alan Watts

110. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens

111. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”

— Aristotle

112. “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”

— Bruce Lee

113. “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

114. “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

— Bertrand Russell

115. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

116. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

117. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

118. “The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.”

— Lao Tzu

119. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

120. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

— Henry David Thoreau

121. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

122. “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

— Alan Watts

123. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

— Bruce Lee

124. “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

— Carl Sagan

125. “There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

— Paulo Coelho

126. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.”

— Abdul Kalam

127. “I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.”

— Swami Vivekananda

128. “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

129. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

— John Muir

130. “This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”

— Henry David Thoreau

131. “Silence gives answers.”

— Rumi

132. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

133. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

— Cassandra Clare

134. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

135. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

136. “Without literature, life is hell.”

— Charles Bukowski

137. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

— Paulo Coelho

138. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

— Paulo Coelho

139. “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

— Leo Tolstoy

140. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

— Nelson Henderson

141. “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

— Marcus Aurelius

142. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

— Auguste Rodin

143. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

144. “Live for yourself and you will live in vain. Live for others and you will live again.”

— Bob Marley

145. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

146. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

— Vern Law

147. “He not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

148. “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

— T.E. Lawrence

149. “Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”

— Alan Watts

150. “One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”

— Nelson Mandela