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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. -- Khalil Gibran
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. -- Ann Voskamp
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority. -- Victor Koo
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation. -- Jonathan Kozol
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched. -- Barry Eichengreen
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. -- Charles Kennedy
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. -- William James
Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. -- Paul Stamets
Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections. -- John Roos
Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome. -- Li Keqiang
Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence. -- David A. Bednar
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. -- Orison Swett Marden
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. -- Thomas Merton
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me. -- Ellen Potter
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else. -- Anne Roiphe
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all. -- Aime Cesaire
Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country. -- Laurent Lamothe
Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it. -- Robert Brady
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. -- Ron Fournier
Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world. -- Xi Jinping
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. -- Diane Johnson
As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again. -- Sharon Salzberg
Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. -- F. Sionil Jose
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began. -- Chris Cleave
in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat -- Colm Toibin
Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it. -- Marianne Williamson
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice. -- Ann Voskamp
When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts. -- Daniel H. Pink
Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude -- Abhishek Shukla
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. -- John Dewey
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others. -- Jostein Gaarder
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. -- Eknath Easwaran
The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love . -- R. S. Thomas
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. -- Cassandra King
The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. -- Susan Sontag
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold -- Sara Teasdale
Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture. -- Charles Colson
All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart. -- Timothy Keller
Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time. -- John Friend
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. -- Theodore Roethke
When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form. -- Eckhart Tolle
Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews. -- William C. Bryant
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. -- Peter Senge
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies. -- Arthur W. Pink
A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere. -- Emily Bronte
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude -- William James
So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine. -- Rene Auberjonois
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back. -- William C. Bryant
The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now. -- Eckhart Tolle
The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point. -- Pope John Paul II
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. -- Al Gore
This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity. -- Ann Voskamp
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits. -- Albert Einstein
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow. -- Rose Macaulay
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life. -- Deepak Chopra
A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior. -- J.D. Greear
By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean. -- Thomas Keating
In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition. -- Christopher Hitchens

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