#depths

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. ↗

— Martin Luther

#depths #grant #heart #help #i

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#depths #each #experienced #feel #heart

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#depths #essence #falls #fathom #inspiration

This is what’s happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I knew it existed. Which is why I avoided it. Because it leads to the other-life, deep, underground, the fluvial, the painful.) We are in the process of descending into the depths of the heart. To where bodies communicate with each other. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#secret #source #communication

Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night. ↗

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

#debts #depths-of-poverty #indecent-life #food

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. ↗

— John le Carre

#british press #depths #go #go to hell #hell

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#god #heights #manhood #seek #you

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God. ↗

— Jessi Colter

#feel #god #greater #i #i think

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

— George Eliot

#depths #into #look #love #only