Top 150 Deep Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Eckhart Tolle

53. “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

54. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

55. “I rebel; therefore I exist.”

— Albert Camus

56. “Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”

— Paulo Coelho

57. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

58. “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”

— John Milton

59. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Alan Watts

61. “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

62. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.”

— Deepak Chopra

63. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

64. “Die before you die and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

65. “Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

66. “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

— Alan Watts

67. “To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde

68. “When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”

— C. S. Lewis

69. “My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.”

— Rumi

70. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

— Maya Angelou

71. “Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

— Lao Tzu

72. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

73. “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”

— Deepak Chopra

74. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

75. “My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown.”

— Rumi

76. “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

— Virginia Woolf

77. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

78. “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

— Buddha

79. “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

— Albert Camus

80. “Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.”

— Lao Tzu

81. “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

— Sylvia Plath

82. “You are the world and the world is you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

83. “Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

84. “That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”

— Rumi

85. “Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

86. “Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength; He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power.”

— Lao Tzu

87. “When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

88. “We’re all stories, in the end.”

— Steven Moffat

89. “You can’t be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.”

— Chester Bennington

90. “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

91. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

92. “Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.”

— Lao Tzu

93. “Life should be lived to the point of tears.”

— Albert Camus

94. “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

95. “The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

96. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

97. “To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.”

— Lao Tzu

98. “No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

99. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

— C. S. Lewis

100. “Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.”

— Buddha