Deepest Life Quotes

• She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Dark, Light

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.764, Delphi Classics

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• We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

  Audre Lorde

  Moving, Thinking, Erotic

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He who breathes deepest lives most.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Health, Inspire

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• The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mother, Prayer, Moving

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• I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

  Jack Canfield

  Believe, Purpose, World

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