Depth Quotes
1523 quotes by 1136 authors
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Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths
— Andrew Harvey
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the…
— David Abram
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I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to…
— Wells Tower
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Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it.…
— Diane Chamberlain
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And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order…
— Robert Nozick
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Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is…
— Grant Wood
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True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always…
— Josei Toda
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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by…
— Anne Desclos
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Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both.…
— Rajneesh
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You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad.…
— Rajneesh
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
— Isaac Newton
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Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that…
— Higa Yuchoku
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or…
— Aristotle
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But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil?…
— Pope Pius XII
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The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish…
— Paul of the Cross
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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb…
— Wilfrid Noyce
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.
— Stanley Hoffmann
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This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you…
— Rajneesh
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