43 quotes
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery”
— Francis Bacon
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
— Laozi
“When you think you have surrendered, surrender more.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
— William Blake
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. But beyond them lies peace.”
— Dostoevsky
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat and found their way out of the depths”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“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
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
— Alexander Pope
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Family life is like an iceberg. Most people see only the tip that is visible above the water.”
— Alice Munro
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
— Khalil Gibran
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“The only journey is the one within.”
“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
“I do not measure a man by the height he has climbed but by the depth from which he has risen”
— George S. Patton
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
— Thomas Huxley
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
— Rumi
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“I think most artists create out of despair the very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside”
— Louise Nevelson
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
— Aristotle
“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“The entire universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
— S.N. Goenka
— Kahlil Gibran
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”
— Albert Camus
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness”
— Werner Herzog
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“The interior of every soul is a vast and unexplored country.”
— Teresa of Ávila
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end”
— Sylvia Plath
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
— Erich Fromm
“Understanding someone deeply is already an act of compassion toward that person”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The darkness around us is deep”
— Robert Bly
“Solitude was my only consolation deep dark deathlike solitude”
— Mary Shelley
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