70 interesting phrases that will make you reflect

There are many reflections that we hear throughout the day, and innumerable those that the millions of people who have existed throughout history have pronounced. All of them have had or have their importance, as an expression of a thought or feeling or an attempt to communicate to us what they are. And many of them are the product of deep thoughts, remaining in history for some reason.

In this article we are going to see exactly a series of interesting phrases that have been pronounced or written throughout history.

Interesting phrases that invite you to think

Following you will find a selection of several interesting phrases that numerous personalities have made throughout history, along with others from tradition and popular wisdom.

1. Fall down seven times, get up eight

Motivating phrase from a Japanese proverb that pushes us not to let ourselves be defeated and not to give up.

2. Fantasy never leads to madness; what leads to madness is precisely reason. Poets don't go crazy, but chess players do.

The writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton tells us that it is the fact that wanting to control and rationalize everything is harmful and dangerous, being the healthy expression of our fantasy and desires.

3. Words are full of falsehood or art; the look is the language of the heart

William Shakespeare tells us how easy it is to manipulate language to make it fit our intentions, but that our look will tend to be sincere and to express what we really sorry.

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4. The words wax, the works steel

Góngora's phrase that reflects that what really counts are actions, not words.

5. There is no tree that the wind does not shake

funny hindu proverb which reminds us that we have all suffered, are suffering and are going to suffer throughout our lives when facing reality.

6. Unexpressed emotions never die. They are buried alive and come out later in worse ways

This sentence of Sigmund Freud It reflects that what we keep silent about is still valid within us since we are unable to give it an outlet. And this can generate a worsening of the situation and internal discomfort.

7. Today is tomorrow that you were so worried about yesterday

This phrase by Dale Carnegie tells us that little by little we are overcoming situations and that everything is coming, worrying about tomorrow is not something that should anguish us and limit us.

8. The greatest empire is the empire of oneself

Seneca tells us with this phrase that it is the fact of knowing ourselves and knowing how to manage ourselves and our lives is what allows us to be happy.

9. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

This phrase attributed to Lao Tzu tells us that to go far we must start walking.

10. The greatest declaration of love is the one that is not made, the man who feels a lot speaks little

Although it may be debatable, this phrase from Plato reflects that rarely do we usually say everything we feel and everything we care about the people we love.

11. Challenges make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful

Facing challenges and valuing them as something positive is essential so that we can enrich our lives daring to act to achieve what we want, as the writer, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo reminds us Emerson.

12. If the whole year were a party, having fun would be more boring than working

Most of us like to enjoy our leisure time. This phrase by William Shakespeare that does not indicate the boredom that ends up being monotony for most people.

13. The most difficult thing is to know ourselves; the easiest is to speak ill of others

Reflection of the philosopher Thales of Miletus, who already in antiquity saw that the human being finds easy to criticize the rest of the world without seeing your own characteristics, seeing the straw only in the eye unaffiliated.

14. Feeling pain is inevitable. suffering is optional

A well-known phrase sometimes attributed to Buddha and others to M. Kathleen Casey. This phrase points out that although the things that happen to us can be painful, our attitude plays a major role in determining how we will react to them and how they will affect us.

15. It's crazy to hate all roses because one pricked you. Giving up on all your dreams because one of them didn't come true

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the author of this sentence, and in fact it appears in The little Prince, and reminds us that we cannot generalize a single specific situation or element to the rest of the situations or elements that may occur.

16. Whoever fights with monsters should be careful not to become a monster himself. When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Phrase by Nietzsche in which he expresses that we must bear in mind that in the fight for what we we consider fair or right there does not come a point where we do precisely what we we wanted to fight

17. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Phrase by Oscar Wilde, which tells us that not all the good guys are so good and not all the bad guys are so bad. We can all change.

18. If you want different results, do not do the same

Einstein's phrase that indicates the need to risk experimenting with new options if we want to achieve things different from the usual ones.

19. We must not lose faith in humanity, since it is like the ocean: it does not get dirty because some of its drops are corrupted

We often tend to lose faith and believe that everyone is selfish. and he will try to achieve his goals by stepping on others and hurting us. But the truth is, as this phrase by Gandhi reflects, that the fact that it has happened to us on some occasion does not imply that everyone is the same.

20. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world was going to fall apart, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther King offered us this phrase as a symbol of the need to maintain hope and bet on the future, no matter how bad we see it.

21. There is always some madness in love, but there is always some reason in madness.

Phrase by Nietzsche in which he expresses the sensations and actions that appear or are carried out for love.

22. One today is worth two tomorrows

This phrase by Benjamin Franklin tells us that the present is much more valuable than the future, since it is only now that we are living, without being able to know what may be to come.

23. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave is not the one who does not feel fear but the one who conquers that fear

Nelson Mandela's phrase in which we are told that courage is not being afraid but daring to face it.

24. Holding a grudge is like holding a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else; it is one that burns

Phrase attributed to Buddha that tells us that hating, holding a grudge against someone and wanting revenge in the end only harms ourselves.

25. Whoever transforms himself, transforms the world

The Dalai Lama indicates that it is the change of the person himself that will generate a change in the world or in our way of perceiving it.

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26. Life is a magnificent show, but we have bad seats and do not understand what we are witnessing

This phrase by Georges Clemenceau refers to the fact that we are often not able to understand the beauty of life or appreciate the things that are really worth it.

27. Laughing at nothing is stupid, laughing at everything is stupid

Groucho Marx's phrase that reminds us of the need to find a balance between seriousness and humor. We have to take life with a certain humor, but without trying to make a comedy out of everything.

28. He who wants everything from this life to his liking will have many displeasures.

One of Quevedo's most interesting phrases that expresses the need to accept that not everything is going to go as we would like.

29. Neither a sublime intelligence, nor a great imagination, nor the two things together make up genius; love, that's the soul of genius

Amadeus Mozart uttered this phrase to indicate that what makes us stand out is not the ability, but love what we do.

30. The least frequent thing in this world is living. Most people exist, that's all

This phrase by Oscar Wilde makes us see that most people just survive, without fighting to achieve their dreams and denying or fearing to fight to achieve them. He also tries to push us to try to live as we are and believe.

31. Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you

Huxley reminds us that what matters and what defines us is what we do with our life and what happens, not the things that happen in it.

32. The important thing is not to do new things but to do them as if nobody had ever done them before.

Possibly most of the things we have thought and done have been done and thought before. What matters is not being the first, but doing them with the utmost enthusiasm and by ourselves.

33. Ask yourself if what you are doing today will get you where you want to be tomorrow.

Walt Disney also made great reflections like this one. In it, he pushes us to fight to achieve our dreams and act towards them.

34. Kisses are like cherries: one leads to another

This phrase is an Italian proverb that reflects reciprocity and the desire for more when kissing someone we are attracted to and/or whom we love.

35. All the variety, all the charm and all the beauty that exists in this world is made of lights and shadows.

Tolstoy reminds us that everything has its good and bad side., its lights and shadows, and that we must be able to appreciate it.

36. The only person you should compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday. That is the person you must surpass and focus on to be better.

Attributed to Freud, this phrase criticizes the fact that we tend to continually compare ourselves and want to surpass others, when the only being we should aspire to surpass is our past self.

37. If it's good to live, it's even better to dream, and best of all, to wake up

Beautiful phrase by Antonio Machado, reminds us that having dreams and fantasies and not just dreaming but fighting to achieve them is what allows us to live our lives in a way happy.

38. We can complain that roses have thorns, or be glad that thorns have roses.

Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, this phrase reminds us that everything depends on the perspective from which we see things.

39. nothing happens until something moves

Albert Einstein tells us the need to act: things don't just happen.

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40. The measure of love is to love without measure

Work of San Agustín, this phrase lets us see that love is something that is not measured or calculated, it is simply felt in all its intensity.

41. If you are not prepared before the media they will make you love the oppressor and hate the oppressed

One of the most remembered phrases of the American activist Malcolm X, who considered the media as a threat.

42. Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer to shape it

Bertolt Brecht was one of the most outstanding artists of the interwar period and his reflections on art are truly suggestive.

43. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

A phrase from the poet Alfred Tennyson that condenses how beautiful love is, although in the end it may fail.

44. Everything we are is the result of what we think. The mind is everything, what we think is what we become

A famous quote from Buddha, which can help us achieve spiritual balance.

45. When I let go of who I am, I become what I could be.

The thinker Lao-Tzu offers us this advice that we can put into practice to realize the great potential of the human will.

46. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you're going to get

One of the most remembered phrases from the movie "Forrest Gump"

47. Worried about a single leaf you won't see the tree

By giving too much importance to insignificant details we will not be able to see the complexity of the reality of anything.

48. Own the mind instead of being dominated by the mind

Sometimes our thoughts can come to dominate us, we must control both our mind and our feelings.

49. Those who are free from resentment will find peace.

This Buddha's phrase perfectly summarizes the Buddhist maxim based on getting rid of any resentment or material desire.

50. When you look for it, you can't find it

A Zen proverb that tells us about how the best things appear in life when you are not looking for them.

51. Better a word that calms the listener than a thousand absurd verses

In Buddhist religions, balance, serenity and silence are valued above all, in the face of noise and unreason.

52. Monsters are real, and so are ghosts: they live inside of us, and sometimes they win.

A truly suggestive phrase from Stephen King, one of the great masters of the horror genre.

53. That there is no good reason to stay is a good reason to leave

A piece of advice that we can put into practice in our daily lives.

54. Move and the way will open

Only when we move forward is when we can achieve everything we set out to do.

55. Life is what happens while we make plans

On numerous occasions, life throws us totally unexpected surprises, no matter how much planning we have done.

56. It is better to be silent and appear foolish than to speak and clear doubts definitively.

One of the most remembered and hilarious quotes from Groucho Marx.

57. The purpose of our lives is to be happy

This quote from the spiritual leader of Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, reminds us that only those who have achieved happiness have a fulfilling life.

58. If you realize that you have enough, then you are truly rich.

The Chinese thinker Lao-Tse gives us in this quote the true secret of happiness.

59. A good teacher opens the door for you, but you must go through it

True learning is what is done by oneself and with one's own means.

60. Obstacles do not block the way. are the way

A truly philosophical way of conceiving the setbacks we encounter along the way.

61. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible

A philosophy of life that according to the Dalai Lama will bring us happiness.

62. Not that you lied to me, that I can no longer believe you, that terrifies me

A quote awarded to Friedrich Nietzsche, which reminds us of the importance of trust in friendships, family or love.

63. Life begins where fear ends

This phrase from Osho encourages us to put fear aside and make the most of life.

64. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

A phrase from Steve Jobs that encourages us to live according to our principles and get the most out of life.

65. Everything that happens, agrees

A popular saying that encourages us to embrace everything that happens in our lives, both the good and the bad, because you learn from everything.

66. We are architects of our own destiny

Albert Einstein was a physics genius and he also left us truly philosophical and necessary phrases to apply in our daily lives.

67. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

68. Love is the absence of judgment

A personal reflection on love made by the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Buddhism.

69. Why join the army when you can be a pirate?

This phrase from Steve Jobs reminds us how rebellion and going it alone were a constant throughout his career.

70. Two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe; and I'm not sure about the second

A truly acid critique of human nature, by Albert Einstein.