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Letter "D" » depth
«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
amniotic, amniotic fluid, conceal, corresponds, depth, female, fluid, fluids, indestructible, menses, monsters, personified, personify, respond, sailors, spawn, spawned, spawning, surface, swallows, The New Moon, threatening, tides, unregulated, unstable, Vessels
«The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.»
Author: Hugh Walpole, Sr.
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Love,
Relationships
| Keywords:
depth, Discovery of, glowing, human relationship, increase, progressiveness, The Discovery
«The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
| About:
Heart,
Love
| Keywords:
called, delight, delighting, depth, discover, ecstasies, ecstasy, extraordinary, in depth, transformed
«The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth»
Author: Marilyn vos Savant
(Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
breadth, breadths, depth, in breadth, length
«The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.»
Author: John Maxwell
(Author, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
depth, effectiveness, extent, mythologies, mythology
«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 human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that 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.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Mankind,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
bring back, depth, estranges, estranging, The God
«The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
butterfly, calls, caterpillar, caterpillars, depth, end of the world, injustice, The Mark, The Mark of, the Master
«The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of mind-numbing terror that filled Colon's head was telling him that he was so far out of his depth that the fish had lights on their noses»
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