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"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."
"You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win."
"The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension."
"He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime."
"The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis."
"I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death"
"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."
"The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave."
"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
"When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still."
"Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought."
"Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth."
"A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth."
"You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life."
"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!"
"I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!"
"I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey."
"Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps."
"If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy."
"I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth."
