80. “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”–Eckhart Tolle

As we go through each day, there are many ups and downs. We have moments where everything is just chugging along perfectly and other times where there are challenges—our focus gets cloudy and we likely feel pulled into distractions. In these times of frenzy, we all need a little encouragement to remember what really matters and possibly change our perspectives. If you are looking for a little inspiration and motivation to dive deeper into what's all around us, these 100 deep quotes will help to get you back on track.

Wise sayings and deep thoughts that may help shift your perspective.

40. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”–Mahatma Gandhi

96. “Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.”-Mario Fernandez

38. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”–Seneca

70. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”–Dr. Seuss

46. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”–Steve Maraboli

1. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”–Seneca

3. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”–Joshua Marine

4. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”–C.S. Lewis

5. "None of us does everything right. None of us is so wise that we always speak the right word or so strong that we always do the right thing. Remembering this keeps us humble.”–Charles Stanley

6. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”–Anne Frank

7. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”–Mark Twain

8. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”–Robert Louis Stevenson

9. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”-Reinhold Niebuhr

16. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”–Walt Whitman

12. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”–Winston Churchill

15. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”–Anne Frank

17. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”–Winston Churchill

18. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“–Groucho Marx

19. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”–Helen Keller

21. “The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful.”–William Shatner

22. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”–Epicurus

23. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything."–Katharine Hepburn

24. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."–Emily Brontë

10. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”–Farraj Gray

11. “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.”–A. W. Tozer

25. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."–Zora Neale Hurston

26. "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."–Zelda Fitzgerald

27. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."–George Sand

30. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”–C. S. Lewis

31. “The best proof of love is trust.”–Joyce Brothersi

13. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”–Epicurus

32. “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.” Les Dawson

33. “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”–C. S. Lewis

34. “Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”–Elbert Hubbard

36. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”–Helen Keller

35. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”–Albert Camus

37. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”–George Bernard Shaw

39. "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."–Oprah Winfrey

42. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”-Roy T. Bennett

43. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”–Albert Einstein

41. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”–Leo Tolstoy

44. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”–Joseph Campbell

45. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”–Barack Obama

49. “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”–Rick Warren

50. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others—it only changes yours.”–Shannon Alder

51. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”–James Oppenheim

52. “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”–Stephen Furtick

54. “It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.”-Bryant H. McGill

55. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.”–Lolly Daskal

56. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.”–Michel Angelo

57. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”–Albert Einstein

58. “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”–Tom Wilson

59. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”–Tony Robbins

61. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”–Frank Sinatra

63. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”–Seneca

64. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.”–Joan Collins

65. “I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”–Jonas Salk

66. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”–Kahlil Gibran

67. “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”–Sun Tzu

69. “The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”–Brennan Manning

71. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”–Marthe Troly-Curtin

72. “Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”–M. Scott Peck

73. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”–Confucius

74. “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”–Coco Chanel

76. “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”–George Harrison

75. “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”–Lao Tzu

77. “You may delay, but time will not.”-Benjamin Franklin

78. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”–C. S. Lewis

79. “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”–Tennessee Williams

81. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”–Mahatma Gandhi

82. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”–Pope John Paul II

83. “Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”–Hans Christian Andersen

84. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”–Charles Buxton

85. “Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”-Mario Benedetti

86. “Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”–A. W. Tozer

87. “People do not lack strength; they lack will.”–Victor Hugo

88. “A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”–Albert Einstein

89. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”–Jim Rohn

92. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”–Malcolm S. Forbes

90. “Nothing will work unless you do.”–Maya Angelou

91. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”–Cesare Pavese

95. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”–Lillian Dickson

93. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”–Steve Jobs

94. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”–Seneca

97. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”– Michel De Montaigne

98. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”–Oscar Wilde

99. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”–C. S. Lewis

100. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”–Malala Yousafzai

28. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."–Aristotle

29. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”-James Baldwin

48. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”–Buckminster Fuller

60. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”–Albert Einstein

62. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”–Abraham Lincoln

68. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”–David Allen

14. “Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”–Winnie the Pooh

20. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”–Morrie Schwartz

53. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”–Mark Twain

2. "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”–Oscar Wilde

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