Cicely Tyson
Actress
"The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat."
Deep Thought quotes
Deep Thought
170 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts."
George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."
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"There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both."
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"Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live."
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"However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside."
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"The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are."
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"Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70."
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"The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body."
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"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
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"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
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"There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."
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"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
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"How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!"
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"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
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"If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart."
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"You can be sincere and still be stupid."
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"Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine."
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"We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without."
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"Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying."
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"It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development."
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"Nothing is stronger than habit."
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"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."
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