Deep Wisdom Quotes

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

What you seek is seeking you.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

In our deepest moments, we say the most inadequate things.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

What you are will show in what you do.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

We are all just walking each other home.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.