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• A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Growing Up, Understanding, Suffering

  Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

  dream hampton

  Ocean, Moon, Water

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• It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

  William Hazlitt

  Grief, Sadness, Taste

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• The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

  Shana Alexander

  Sex, Loss, Deep Love

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• The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.

  Walter Wangerin

  Pain, Grief, Character

  Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins

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• I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

  Steven Cojocaru

  Men, Shallow Person, Political

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• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sky, Dancing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1985). “The Yearling”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Depth, Originality, Adaptability

  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Francis W. P. Bolger, Elizabeth R. Epperly (1992). “My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery”, Oxford University Press, 1992

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

  Lady Gaga

  New York, Games, Play

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• Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

  Kim Edwards

  Sea, World, Whole

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  Barbara Walters

  New Year, Party, Shallow Person

  "How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything". Book by Barbara Walters, 1970.

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

  Linus Torvalds

  Bazaars, Bugs, Enough

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• It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

  Robert Bork

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Robert H. Bork (2008). “A time to speak: selected writings and arguments”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Character, Yield

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 24, 2015

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Lying, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Country, Blessed, Tasks

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• Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bottom

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• I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.

  Peter Farrelly

  Girl, Real, Silly

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• For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

  Winona Ryder

  Moving, Long, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

  Chris Hardwick

  Inspiring, Zero, Famous Inspirational

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.37, Penguin

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• Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Commitment, Blessing

  "Ye Must Be Born Again". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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