A Quote by H. L. Mencken

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Evan Esar

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.

Gaspard Monge

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Avicenna

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that is no thinking; it is only sterile and what can overcome. To reach that depth in terms of female divinity is to accept nurture as godly. It's not just something that your mom does for you when something's broken and you need a bandage; it's about something deeper and it is in contradistinction from the endless displays of power.

Andre Alexis

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Leo Tolstoy

My music, you know I'm not lying about anything, and the way you can tell is how in-depth I can get about everything I'm talking about.

Iman Shumpert

If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.

Frederick Buechner

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

Iyanla Vanzant

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

John Clayton

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

Billy Graham

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.