Quotes About Depth

If I were any kind of water," Eden said, staring out and out, "I'd want to be this ocean." You already are, I wanted to tell her. You're everything I can see.

The waves reach up and the fathomless sky pushes down.

Si uno diluye un buen poema en un litro de agua consigue un cuento regular. Si uno diluye ese cuento en diez litros de agua, consigue una novela innecesaria.

a speech about everything is a speech about nothing.

Our strong sun darkens the colour of your skin to the colour of ours, but it cannot change what lies underneath.

Don't forget that, Celia. There's more to life than flowery words and orgasms.

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare, Heaven, hast thou secrets? Man unveils me; I have none.

GözyaÅŸlar? için fazla derin" bir keder bu.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Por eso esas palabras de Barth son reconfortantes: Lo que forja a un hombre de oración es que se presente delante de Dios con su petición. Las otras teorías de la oración pueden haber surgido de pensamientos muy profundos y pueden lucir muy bien, pero todas sufren de cierta artificialidad porque carecen de algo simple y concreto: se pierden en las alturas y profundidades donde no hay lugar para el hombre que realmente ora, que simplemente hace una petición.4

Fully feeling people are also rewarded with increasing richness in their relationships – both with themselves and with others. Love manifests as a palpable warmth and excitement when it is grounded in the heart and body by feeling. Emotional love is so much more profound than the lightweight intellectual experiences of thought-bound people for whom love is often only an ideal, a dream, or a hungry expectation.

Mattis had a line to explain what was happening: Trump was so out of his depth that he had decided to drain the pool. Once it got shallow enough, he must have figured, he would not be underwater anymore.

The things that matter to us are measured by depth. Would you assess your humanity by its pace? When I view myself as a time-sensitive product, valued for what I produce, then I have made depth, extended thought, and the inward journey marginal indulgences.

Tener malas experiencias a veces es una ayuda, te aclara lo que deberías hacer. Sé que esto parece demasiado optimista, pero es cierto. Quienes sólo han tenido buenas experiencias no son muy interesantes. Puede que estén contentos y sean felices de alguna manera, pero son superficiales. Ahora te parecerá un contratiempo, algo que te complica la vida, pero... es demasiado sencillo vivir sin complicaciones.

She understood as women often do more easily than men, that the declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Deep down, he's shallow.

Rulebook Bible reading" shortchanges the depth and raw reality of Israel's own journey of faith in God.

That kind of Bible works, because that is our story, too. The Bible "partners" with us (so to speak), modeling for us our walk with God in discovering greater depth and maturity on our journey of faith, not by telling us what to do at each step, but by showing us a journey of hills and valleys, straight lanes and difficult curves, of new discoveries and insights, of movement and change—with God by our side every step of the way.

There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.

The sadness of our world, it underlies everything like a water.

Women, every powerful man is becoming weak until he dies. Men, every beautiful woman is becoming less beautiful until she dies. Yet there is a deeper beauty and a deeper power and a deeper love.

Maybe it's not just a metaphor, and maybe mystery...paradox...wonder...aren't LESS real than this world, but MORE real than this world.