Profound Thoughts

Profound thoughts and their authors, on a quiet globe made of text. Drag to explore. Click a thought to read it.

• “Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “Happiness is like a sunrise. The moment is lovely, and then it is over. If you chase it forever, you will be unhappy, because it slips through your fingers when you try to hold it.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “Meaning yields joy. But joy is deeper than happiness.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “The more you resist, the more friction, and the more unhappiness. Acceptance says: it is a bad day, and meaning is still there.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “You can always pull joy from meaning.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “Meaning is self-authored and unique to you. That is why it is special.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “To accept that life contains hardship is to release something in yourself. You no longer have to resist it.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “Hardship comes to all of us. Nobody gets out.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “If you are alive, you are dead or dying.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “Whatever you want to do (climb the mountain, write the song, go back to school), do it. We only have now.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “It is never too late to start.” — Tom Hiddleston (unverified)
• “If you are ready, you are late.” — Tom Hiddleston
• “We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.” — Unknown (unverified)
• “Take off your shoes and socks, and go barefoot on the grass. You move fast in your life. Be grounded in the earth.” — A traditional doctor in Upper Mustang