Quotes About Depth

You find in life that there are different levels of being in love with someone, and maybe everyone doesn't find that undeniable, indescribable... I can't describe it, it's indescribable.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

It is remarkable that the persons we love most are those we can least describe.

The Bible is not a newspaper to be skimmed but rather a mine to be quarried.

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

I hate small talk with a passionate hatred. Why? I suppose because any meeting with another human being is collision for me now.

in Sante Fe time is not that shallow. There one can go deep into a continuity as the pueblos and the culture they represent take one back at least eight hundred years through a single Indian dance. For a European that continuity is life-giving.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Whatever people I take into my life I take in because they challenge me and I challenge them at the deepest level. Such relationships are rarely serene, but they are nourishing.

It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

We laughed together. Our friendship was possible because Ivonne was wise without glitter, while I, too often, glittered without wisdom.

Alone, seated in a strange house filled with strangers, I felt as if I were in dangerous waters, swimming badly and out of my depth. I was plankton in an ocean of whales.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

It isn't deep, the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat. It is...too...deep! he insisted, outraged.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Un mejor liderazgo también tiene que ser algo más que nuevos métodos y técnicas. Las herramientas son necesarias, pero lo que realmente precisamos es sustancia.