In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe… — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It matters not whether you win the race or not but that you cross the finish line with a smile and a… — Pat McBride Copy Share Image
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human. Even in the depths of… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built… — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album that I wanted to put on myself and could listen to again and again. In the… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
