Deep Thought Quotes

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart.... Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been.

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.