#depths

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

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

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

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#depths #hard #i #i think #love

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#depths #despair #forward #go #got