Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
Tag: depth attention present-moment banal
The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
No real knowledge is common.
Tag: depth real-knowledge common-knowledge
Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?
Ally CondieTag: shallow eyes depth transparent
A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.
Anthony LiccioneTag: roots depth stand-strong
All our lives we measure ourselves based on our height, but during a crisis we should measure ourselves in-depth.
Celso CukierkornTag: crisis depth rabbi-celso celso-cukierkorn
Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness
Jocelyn MurrayTag: pain love greatness soul loss suffering depth
It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
Criss JamiTag: friendship love learning youth faith curiosity forgiveness desire depth development loyalty relationship faithfulness young seeking bonds young-love intrigue
But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn’t been looking at her really. They’d been looking at what she represented to them: physical love or a valuable prize or an object to be gawked at. When Sir Alistair stared at her, well, he was looking at her.
Elizabeth HoytTag: love beauty identity depth superficiality
He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which, by my theory, must in some degree estrange me and him, changed, indeed, somewhat our relations; but not in the sense I painfully anticipated. An invisible, but a cold something, very slight, very transparent, but very chill: a sort of screen of ice had hitherto, all through our two lives, glazed the medium through which we exchanged intercourse. Those few warm words, though only warm with anger, breathed on that frail frost-work of reserve; about this time, it gave note of dissolution. I think from that day, so long as we continued friends, he never in discourse stood on topics of ceremony with me.
Charlotte BrontëTag: honesty friendship understanding depth frankness villette lucy-snowe veils dr-john-graham-bretton
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Cressida CowellTag: heroism character depth hiccup
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