Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed."
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Depth
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Mary Oliver
Poet
"I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."
Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
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"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."
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"Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."
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"You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God."
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"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart."
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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
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"Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals."
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"The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step."
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"When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?"
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"Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth."
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"I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community."
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"we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"
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"All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
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"Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent."
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"The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love"
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"The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths."
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"When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect."
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"The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience."
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"Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time."
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"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
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