Don’t get us wrong: we love some mindless entertainment. But sometimes it feels good to be deep in thought. Consider it a form of self-care after a long day, week, or even year. Need something to think about? These 101 thinking quotes will get your gears moving.
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- “If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” — Rumi
- “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” — Margaret Atwood
- “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” — Gloria Steinem
- “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver
- “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” — Beverly Rubik
- “We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves”. — Bruce Lee
- “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is.” — Ryan Holiday
- “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” — Henrik Ibsen
- “I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own.” — Nikola Tesla
- “It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.” — Émile Zola
- “I rebel; therefore I exist.” — Albert Camus
CBS - “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.” — Victor Hugo
- “The only reason we get lost in thought is because it is unfamiliar territory.” — Ashton Leinen
- “If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The wind howls, but the mountain remains still.” — Japanese proverb
- “There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
- “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” — William Shakespeare
- “Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learned it by reading.” — Unknown
- “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.” — Mark Twain
- “The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” — William Arthur Ward
- “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” — Charles Dickens
- “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
- “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” — Lao Tzu
- “Do or do not, there is no try.” — Yoda
- “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger
- “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” — Sigmund Freud
- “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” — Voltaire
- “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert
- “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” — Soren Kierkegaard
- “Cleverness is not wisdom.” — Euripides
- “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” — Bertrand Russell
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” — William Shakespeare
ABC - “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas
- “Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.” — Gustave Flaubert
- “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
- “He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.” — Albert Einstein
- “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” — Criss Jami
- “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.” — Arthur Rimbaud
- “Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty.” — Kilian Jornet
- “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Don’t settle, and don’t struggle.” — Naval Ravikant
- “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca
- “God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” — Voltaire
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- “Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.” — Robert Greene
- “Rest in reason; move in passion.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “To do two things at once is to do neither.” — Publilius Syrus
- “The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.” — Dejan Stojanovic
- “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “What worries you, masters you.” — John Locke
- “Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices.” — Rick Rubin
- “The fears we don’t face become our limits.” — Jim Kwik
- “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” — Muhammad Ali
- “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” — Neils Bohr
- “The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.” — Mikhail Bakunin
- “It’s not how well you play the game, it’s deciding what game you want to play.” — Kwame Appiah
- “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” — Terence McKenna
- “If it is not necessary to decide, it is necessary not to decide.” — Lord Acton
- “Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” — Neil Strauss
- “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” — Arthur C. Clarke
- “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway
20th Century Fox - “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” — Edward Abbey
- “Where there is no sense of ownership, there is respect. Where there is no hope, there is Truth. Where there is no attachment, there is love.” — Kapil Gupta
- “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” — Robert A. Heinlein
- “When you’re in love, truly in love, you never have to question it.” — Michael Faudet
- “The sun loved the moon so much, he died every night just to let her breath.” — Unknown
- “If you haven’t found something strange during the day it hasn’t been much of a day.” — John Wheeler
- “One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” — Gustave Flaubert
- “That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.” — Jim Morrison
- “When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.” — Ethiopian proverb
- “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver
- “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” — Erwin Schrödinger
- “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca
- People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.” — Naval Ravikant
- “Being happy for someone else’s success makes you happier.” — Russ Diemon
- “A happy person doesn’t have to convince other people they are happy. Either you are or you’re not. And if you are, you’re not taking selfies to show people.” — Shane Parrish
- “What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” — Adam Smith
- A”ll the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say ‘No,’ and said ‘Yes.’” — Moss Hart
- “When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu
- “If you trip while running down a hallway, you’ll get a nosebleed. If you trip in life, you cry.” — Minori
- “It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.” — Leon Brown
- “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” — Euripides
- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” — Plato
- “A friend to all is a friend to none.” — Aristotle
- “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung
- “You don’t meet people by accident. There’s always a reason. A lesson or a blessing.” — Unknown
- “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman
- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” — Rabindranath Tagore
- “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” — Voltaire
- “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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