43 quotes
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Understanding someone deeply is already an act of compassion toward that person”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
— Aristotle
“The darkness around us is deep”
— Robert Bly
“When you think you have surrendered, surrender more.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
— Erich Fromm
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat and found their way out of the depths”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Family life is like an iceberg. Most people see only the tip that is visible above the water.”
— Alice Munro
“The entire universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
— S.N. Goenka
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. But beyond them lies peace.”
— Dostoevsky
— Kahlil Gibran
“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. And the outward work can never be great or even good if the inward one is puny or of little worth.”
— Meister Eckhart
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery”
— Francis Bacon
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
— Laozi
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness”
— Werner Herzog
“I think most artists create out of despair the very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside”
— Louise Nevelson
“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”
— Albert Camus
“I do not measure a man by the height he has climbed but by the depth from which he has risen”
— George S. Patton
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The interior of every soul is a vast and unexplored country.”
— Teresa of Ávila
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
— Rumi
“The only journey is the one within.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
— William Blake
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end”
— Sylvia Plath
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
— Alexander Pope
“Solitude was my only consolation deep dark deathlike solitude”
— Mary Shelley
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us”
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
— Thomas Huxley
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