Great quotes to reflect upon, these thoughtful quotes and sayings give us perspective on important things in our lives. This list includes thoughtful quotes from many famous individuals about life, friendship, love, and more. Find inspiration and motivation with these quotes and sayings.

Thoughtful Quotes about Life

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao-Tzu

Don’t care what people say,
Just follow your own way,
Don’t give up and lose the chance,
To return to innocence. – Return to Innocence, Enigma

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. – Prince William

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. – Theodore Roosevelt

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

I am easy. I’m kind, thoughtful, benevolent, easygoing. I’m a pushover. – Drayton McLane

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. – Terri Guillemets

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

Thoughtful Quotes about Friendship

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes. – Unknown

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. – Thomas Wilson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately. – Mark Twain

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy. – Bob Marley

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. – C.S. Lewis

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well. – Ashley Young

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. – Ethel Mumford

To the query, ‘What is a friend?’ his reply was ‘A single soul dwelling in two bodies.’ – Aristotle

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. – Charles Colton

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. – Mark Twain

Thoughtful Quotes about Love

Be kind to one another. – Jim Henson

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. – Oscar Wilde

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. – Phyllis Diller

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. – Mark Overby

Thou art to me a delicious torment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. – William Hazlitt

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there? – Richard Bach

When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

And that concludes our list of thoughtful quotes on love, life, and friends. Share your own quotes below.

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