Best Depth Quotes

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I don’t ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there’s also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

I think it’s really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.

There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it’s perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we’ve learned to our lives.