Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus…

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Joy runs deeper than despair.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible

It’s not really that much of a big deal – you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

Some of the generals are saying, ‘We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.’ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

Above all, try to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.