Deep Quotes
5963 quotes by 3645 authors
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable…
— Tom Robbins
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
— Henri Nouwen
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
— Joan Didion
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My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
— Shakti Gawain
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Deep inside us we're not that different at all.
— Phil Collins
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient…
— Lydia M. Child
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He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
— John Burroughs
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The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature…
— Robert Bly
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and…
— Laurens van der Post
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The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly…
— Robert Ballard
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the…
— Ellen Glasgow
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott…
— Cesar Chavez
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
— Cyril Connolly
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I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness…
— Alicia Silverstone
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It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
— Samuel Johnson
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