Sometimes in our short lifetime, it is wise to stop and take a deep breath; to check out something deeper, to gain perspective, to allow deep and meaningful thoughts and sayings to enter our subconscious. What matters in life is not shallow thinking but what reveals hidden truths, or those that calm you, or those that provide intellectual stimulation.
Within each of us is that inner strength to conquer challenges, or to overcome adversity. All of these deep short quotes on life, challenges, obstacles, and concerns provide just that stimuli that you might need to go further into exploring your own life and its new paths.
We hope that these short, broad, meaningful and profound quotations will become your daily morning mind challenging and motivational launch for an inspired day. Any day can be productive by making a personal
choice and by using a stimulating saying to ignite the mind.
We invite you to come back every morning to get your "short deep quote" nourishment for the day.
For he who holds the joy robs the many. Robert Rivers
There is no challenge or meaning or purpose to life without the decay of time. H.H. Hopalotomus
Freedom is not only a matter that relates to the body but also to the mind. B. C. Artworst
Freedom to think what you want is important. However, more important is the opportunity to put into motion that which first starts as a thought. As well, freedom in regards to your body also means that you are able to do what you want but healthy choices are at the forefront of well-being.
The concept of change does not rest external to the being but is predicated on the inner self recognizing the need to act. Rory R. Cuphist
How is life measured? Is it by the passage of time? Or, is it by the very instantaneous moments that life is paraded in our minds eye? Annabelle Marie Haines
Values are the building blocks of civilization given to shame and destroy the follies of foolish humans. Freddy J. W. Parkes
In order for a civilization to move forward, indeed, even to survive, means that a solid core of beneficial and trustworthy values must exist amidst the evil that is inherent in all of mankind. Make no mistake, societies will fall and eventually fade away completely without solid and honest and moral values just as did the Roman empire in the ancient world.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus
Time must stand still before human kindness can catch up.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Time has a bad habit of revealing the decay in humans long before their goodness shines. It is not that humans have no generosity, or compassion, or goodness; it is rather that the human race seems to be willing and able to revel in those behaviors that cause harm much sooner than those behaviors that attempt to overcome or repair that which has been hurt, injured or destroyed.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
You can't see without the vision of the past. Byron R. Pulsifer
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy
People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Euripides
To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde
The best winner of the battle is the one who remains calm. Byron R. Pulsifer
Be – don’t try to become. Osho
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. Phyllis Theroux
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth. Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. Carl Jung
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Nikola Tesla
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
Euripides
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Soren Kierkegaard
All is well in the world as when ignorance is expressed through a veil of deceit.
Byron R. Pulsifer
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Carlie Munger
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good. William Faulkner
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud
Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides
All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw
Some people are more certain of everything than I am of nothing. Robert Rubin
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein
The prettiest eyes have cried the most. Unknown Author
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe
The kindest hearts have felt the most pains. Unknown Author
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Edgar Allan Poe
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla
The last 29 days of the month are the toughest! Nikola Tesla
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station ... William Faulkner
Did you ever stop to think, and then forget to start again? Winnie The Pooh
They’re funny things, accidents. You never have them till you’re having them. Winnie The Pooh
We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. Andrew, The Breakfast Club
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain
Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most. Mark Twain
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Neils Bohr
God knows, I prefer people with anxieties, whose tomorrow is threatened by uncertainty. Albert Einstein
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
Leo Tolstoy
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Mikhail Bakunin
One day we will be dead. But today I’ll give it my best not to blame, complain, drain. Today I’ll give my best not to regret or forget. James Altucher
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
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustave Flaubert
We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. ... It will all be gone. Naval Ravikant
Battle not with monsters, lest you become one and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friederich Nietsche
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
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Arthur Schopenhauer
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. Victor Hugo
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honoré de Balzac
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? Soren Kierkegaard
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. Winnie The Pooh
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing. Soren Kierkegaard
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. Polish Proverb
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Edward R. Murrow
Gazing at the stars will not save you from the abyss at your feet. Dr. Idel Dreimer
Just as the old, looking back, idealize the past, so the young, looking forward, idealize the future. Illusion is the stuff of memory — and is at the heart of hope. Dr. Idel Dreimer
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Börne
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J. Lec
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee
When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist Proverb
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. Henry David Thoreau
Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. S.A. Sachs
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. Thomas Carlyle
Who depends on another man's table often dines late. John Ray
He who despairs the failures in life does not know the path to success. Byron R. Pulsifer
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. Zen Saying
We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.
William Hazlitt
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
Antonio Porchia
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. Evelyn Waugh
The throat thinks of more than just thirst.
Terri Guillemets
You are in the perfect position to get there from here.
Abraham–Hicks
It's always Now.
Eckhart Tolle
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
A change in course is only as good as the inner peace it gives.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
I am changed forever by the realization of never. Terri Guillemets
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. Zen Proverb
Without love the world is void. Kate Summers
There is no end in sight unless a beginning is finished. Robert Rivers
Not to be able to see a resolution is not blindness but ignorance. Kate Summers
The more man mediates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. Confucius
The best part of the end of the day is the sleep that prepares for the optimism of tomorrow. Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. Tryon Edwards
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right. Marilyn Monroe
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Euripides
Time is a created thing. To say I don’t have time is like saying, I don’t want to.
Lao Tzu
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Burr
All is well in the world when in love. Unknown Author
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo
I choose not to hear when insanity takes the place of truth. Theodore W. Higgingsworth