60 Deep Quotes That Will Make You Question Everything

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love o…”

— John Lennon, youtube.com

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”

— Gilda Radner, amazon.com

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say, 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are diffe…”

— Arundhati Roy, goodreads.com

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

— George Bernard Shaw, mannerofspeaking.org

“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.”

— Will Rogers, quoteinvestigator.com

“If we keep our heroes at a safe distance, they cannot disappoint us with the banal business of being people. But part of growing up is accepting that everybody is people.”

— Aishwarya Subramanyam, huffingtonpost.in

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to…”

— Jim Morrison, archives.waiting-forthe-sun.net

“It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”

— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

— John Lennon, amazon.com

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

— John Lennon, amazon.com

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to…”

— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

— Frank Zappa, amazon.com

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time f…”

— Paulo Coehlo, goodreads.com

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from pecul…”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu, goodreads.com

“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do know.”

— Lao Tzu, amazon.com

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the…”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late.…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Lao Tzu, amazon.com