60 Deep Quotes That Will Make You Question Everything

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…”

— Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, amazon.com

“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is…”

— Mary Manin Morrissey, amazon.com

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, amazon.com

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another.”

— Helen Keller, amazon.com

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”

— C. Joybell C., amazon.com

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller, amazon.com

“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

— Goldie Hawn, amazon.com

“I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Life is not a series of problems to be solved, it’s a journey that you should be fascinated by.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

“How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“Grief can destroy you -- or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for gran…”

— Dean Koontz, amazon.com

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

— Jack London, amazon.com

“Today is the only day in which we have any power.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger th…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

— Osho, amazon.com

“Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.”

— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com

“I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imper…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”

— Osho, amazon.com

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”

— Shannon Alder, facebook.com

“We need to move away from this constant need of coming across as calm, cool and collected. WE WEREN’T BUILT TO BE CALM, COOL, AND COLLECTED. If we were, it wouldn’t feel so fucking exhausting all the time. It would, you know, come naturally to us. You know what comes naturally to human beings though…”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”

— Shannon Alder, facebook.com

“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’r…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com