Deep Life Quotes - Page 3

• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Philosophy, Sisterhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Faith, Voice, Crowds

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• How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Sea, Rivers

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• How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Might, Wells

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

  Ann Mortifee

  Artist, Roles, Persons

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• If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Reality, Doors

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• We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense

  Joel Osteen

  Make Sense, Happens, True Faith

  Twitter post from Nov 1, 2014

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• All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• The environment is everything that isn't me.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Analysis, Littles

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• We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Understanding, Littles, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.61, Heron Dance Press

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• Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Knowledge And Power, Knowledge Is Power

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Truth, Dark

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.416, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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