These 33 Deep Quotes Will Reshape the Way You See Life
Some ideas do more than just inspire—they restructure.
They slip past the surface of your mind
and quietly begin rearranging the furniture of your perception.
They challenge not what you think, but how you think.
These quotes are like that.
They aren’t merely motivational;
they are philosophical keys that can unlock a different way
of interpreting your experiences, your challenges, and your very purpose.
Read them when you’re ready to look at the familiar world
through a new, more profound lens.
Quotes
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein
“What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus
“The obstacle is the path.” — Zen Proverb
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” — Stephen King
“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” — Bertrand Russell
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” — Emma Goldman
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” — Lao Tzu
“The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard P. Feynman
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
