Top 150 Deep Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”

— Marcus Aurelius

102. “Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

103. “Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”

— Alan Watts

104. “Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

105. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou

106. “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”

— T. S. Eliot

107. “If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Maya Angelou

109. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

110. “Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.”

— Buddha

111. “Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

112. “True change is within. Leave the outside as it is.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

113. “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

— Carl Sagan

114. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

115. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

— Linda Hogan

116. “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

117. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

— C. S. Lewis

118. “Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!”

— Rumi

119. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

120. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

— C. S. Lewis

121. “For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.”

— Buddha

122. “Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”

— Pablo Neruda

123. “If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

124. “Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.”

— Deepak Chopra

125. “You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”

— Paulo Coelho

126. “You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.”

— Alan Watts

127. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

— Rumi

128. “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

— Maya Angelou

129. “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

130. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

131. “Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

132. “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be...”

— John Lennon

133. “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

— Paulo Coelho

134. “Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

135. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

136. “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”

— Maya Angelou

137. “The way you live your days is the way you live your life.”

— Annie Dillard

138. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

139. “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”

— Malcolm X

140. “A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.”

— Deepak Chopra

141. “In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

142. “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”

— Robert Frost

143. “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

— Khalil Gibran

144. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

— Paulo Coelho

145. “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

— Aldous Huxley

146. “It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God’s greatest gifts are given.”

— Wintley Phipps

147. “If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

148. “Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

— Paulo Coelho

149. “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

150. “I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

— William Shakespeare