90 Deep Life Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective
1. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
2. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
4. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
5. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
6. “You don’t find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
7. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
8. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
10. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
11. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
12. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
13. “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
14. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
15. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
16. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl
17. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
18. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Will Durant (interpreting Aristotle)
19. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
20. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
21. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
23. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
24. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer
25. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
26. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
27. “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” – Bob Marley
28. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
29. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
30. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca
31. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
32. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
33. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
34. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
35. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
36. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
37. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
38. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
39. “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” – Ram Dass
40. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
41. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
42. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung
43. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
44. “Every man has two lives. The second starts when he realizes he has just one.” – Confucius
45. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
46. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu
47. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “Reality is wrong, dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur
49. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.” – Albert Camus
50. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way
52. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
53. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
54. “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
55. “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.” – Desmond Tutu
56. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
57. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
58. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
59. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
60. “What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
61. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde
62. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
63. “Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway
64. “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
65. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
66. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
67. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
68. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
69. “Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.” – Bertolt Brecht
70. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton
71. “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller
72. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
73. “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Elizabeth Bibesco
74. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
75. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
76. “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
77. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
78. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal
79. “Life is a one-time offer. Use it well.” – Unknown
80. “The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
81. “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” – Marcus Aurelius
82. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary
83. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
84. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
85. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
86. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
87. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
88. “Don’t just exist. Live.” – Unknown
89. “Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
90. “Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.” – Unknown
Final Thoughts
These 90 deep quotes are not just motivational—they are philosophical, introspective, and rooted in centuries of human thought. Let them remind you that life is layered, complex, and precious. Read them again and again whenever you need grounding, hope, or simply a better perspective on life.