Very Deep Quotes

• The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

  Bo Lozoff

  World, Causes, Problem

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• I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Funny, Stupid, Clueless

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• Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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• Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Stupid, Clueless, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We respect and honor very deeply those people who decide to serve their country in the military. But we certainly don't denigrate people who choose a different course, particularly when we have an all-volunteer army.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Military, Army

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Meaningful, Brother, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spring, Mistake, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.42, New World Library

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• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Running, Writing, Overcoming

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• Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Feminist, Levels

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.328, Macmillan

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• One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Thinking, Lakes

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• The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Mistake, Teaching, Rights

  Broadcast to the people of Australia, February 19, 1948.

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• You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Night, Hands, Long

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.23, Tachyon Publications

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• What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Moving, Mean

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• There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Hurt, Blood, Mind

  Geoff Nicholson (1998). “Bleeding London”, p.62, The Overlook Press

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• When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.

  Rajneesh

  Money, House, Palaces

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• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.

  Frederick Soddy

  Military, Science, Men

  "In Commemoration of Professor Frederick Soddy" by New Europe Group, 6-7, 1956.

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• A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Love, Beautiful, Letting Go

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• You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Letting Go, Thinking

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• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  Yoko Ono

  Deep Love, Race, Concern

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• I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

  Tim Burton

  Depression, Dark, Scary

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Attachment, Music Business

  "Larry Mullen Jr: The Man on the Train". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that are very, very deep. And unless we collectively address them and really put our effort to healing them, they'll perpetuate. The United States of America are still suffering from the echoes of slavery. I think we're still reeling from all the pain that is a result of it, and that's a reality.

  Ani DiFranco

  Pain, Healing, Dark

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