If you’re ready to look past the surface, reach for these Deep Quotes to allow you to see more meaning and purpose in life. These deep quotes can elevate your mind to see past the necessary trials and tribulations in life and reflect on the things that matter most.

We need to devote time to thinking to allow us to ponder our plans, actions, and decisions.

With all the pressures of life, spending time to think brings lots of benefits. It’s vital for your success and well-being.  Thinking time allows you to understand yourself better, to make smarter decisions and to see things differently. It also helps reduce time waste, reduce stress and increase your confidence and happiness.

No matter how busy your schedule might be, set aside some time in your calendar to think of new ideas and to brainstorm ways to push through your problems. To maximize your thinking time, set goals for those open hours and use powerful questions to encourage deep thinking.

All in all, devoting time to think will allow you to maximize your Everyday Power and operate at your full potential. In that respect, here are some inspirational, wise, and powerful deep quotes, deep sayings, and deep proverbs that’ll make you think and inspire you to look at life differently.

Deep quotes that make you think and see life different

1.) “You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.”― Robert M. Drake

2.) “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

3.) “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”― Albert Einstein

4.) “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

5.) “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine

6.) “Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi

7.) “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” – Martin Heidegger

8.) “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

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

10.) “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

Deep quotes about life

11.) “Turning your back on the darkness didn’t mean the darkness would turn it’s back on you.”― Jennifer Donnelly

12.) “Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.” – Robert Greene

13.) “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

14.) “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins

15.) “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

16.) “What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make effort toward caring about it.” -Nokwethemba Nkosi

17.) “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

18.) “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

19.) “If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

20.) “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C. S. Lewis

Deep quotes that make you think

21.) “I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”― Michelle Williams

22.) “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” – Henrik Ibsen

23.) “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” – Anne Frank

24.) “Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews

25.) “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

26.) “Take life one step at a time look forward to your future, stop looking back and regretting the past, the past is the past because it does not last!” – Abhishek Tiwari

27.) “Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.” – Martin Yan

28.) “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

29.) “I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.” – Mitch Hedberg

30.) “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Deep quotes about love and friendship

31.) “The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful.” – William Shatner

32.) “Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.” – Bell Hooks

33.) “Sometime, when you least expect it, you’ll realize that someone loved you. And that means that someone can love you again! And that will make you smile.” – Homer Simpson

34.) “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

35.) “If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” – Rumi

36.) “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ~ Erich Fromm

37.) “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ~ Bob Marley

38.) “Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.” ~ Doe Zantamata

39.) “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

40.) “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

Deep inspirational quotes

41.) “You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.” ― Ava Dellaira

42.) “It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.” – Bryant H. McGill

43.) “The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

44.) “Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.” – Albert Camus

45.) “Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

46.) “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” – Alexandre Dumas

47.) “Today me will live in the moment, unless it is unpleasant, in which case I will eat a cookie.” – Cookie Monster

48.) “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” ~ Bertrand Russell

49.) “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” – William Wordsworth

50.) “It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe Zantamata

Deep quotes to make you reflect and see life from a different angle

51.) “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee

52.) “What matters most in life is often invisible.” — Duane Elgin

53.) “For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

54.) “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

55.) “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”- Stephen Furtick

56.) “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” –Rosa Parks

57.) “Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” — Jackson Brown Jr.

58.) “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michel Angelo

59.) “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Deep quotes to help you set perspective in your life

61.) “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

62.) “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Tom Wilson

63.) “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Tony Robbins

64.) “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

65.) “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley

66.) “If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” – Toni Morrison

67.) “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

68.) “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ― Bill Gates

69.) “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” – Peace Pilgrim

70.) “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

Other deep quotes that make you think in new ways

71.) “The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.” – Alexandre Dumas

72.) “People do not lack strength; they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

73.) “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

74.) “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

75.) “Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices.” – Rick Rubin

76.) “You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” – Beverly Rubik

77.) “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi

78.) “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” – Nikola Tesla

79.) “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” – Edward Abbey

80.) “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

81.) “Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss

82.) “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner

83.) “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

84.) “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde

85.) “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” – Kahlil Gibran

Which of these deep quotes was your favorite?

Although life is busy and full of pressures, you need time to think and reflect upon what’s important. Our bodies and minds were not wired to operate under constant distractions, stress and information overload.

So, for us to achieve peak performance and live a fulfilling life, each of us needs to set aside a regular contemplative time in which to just think. Hopefully, these deep quotes have made you reflect and see life from a different angle.

Did you enjoy these deep quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Let us know in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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