Profound Quotes

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Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is… — Dave Brubeck
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by… — David Hume
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely… — Rajneesh
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to… — Albert Schweitzer
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take… — Thomas Gumbleton
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Mao Zedong
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the… — Bertrand Russell
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. — Ivan Turgenev
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound… — Isadora Duncan
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned,… — Rick Warren
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the… — Unknown Author
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways. — Johnnetta B. Cole
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to… — Marcel Proust
It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and… — Nirmala Srivastava
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound path.… — Sharon Salzberg
Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love,… — Timothy Shriver

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