Depth Quotes

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When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love. — Dalai Lama
Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself… — Frederick Lenz
I probably could have gone in depth about a lot of things, but then the album would've been longer. You can't have a short album… — Kid Cudi
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea… — John F. Kennedy
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely… — Hans Arp
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all… — James Gibbons
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My… — William Shakespeare
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound… — Joseph Addison
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… — Robert Southey
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness. — Stephen Levine
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes… — Blaise Pascal
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of… — Andy Warhol
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth… — Margaret Sanger
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another. — Norman Mailer
Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. — Oliver Sacks
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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