Quotes about Depth

Behind every great story there's always another story.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves

Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest of it is hidden under the water. When you look at successful leaders, you see only a fraction of their lives. You see the part that looks really good, but there's usually a lot that remains hidden that's neither exciting nor glamorous.

It takes quantity as well as quality to develop warm and caring relationships.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Her passions were narrow but deep.

A Sales Funnel Controls the Pace of the Relationship In a relationship, you talk about things on a fourth or fifth date you might never talk about on a first date.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

Sometimes a phrase lands in your soul with such weight it leaves the deepest impression.