Profound Quotes

1328 Profound quotes by 1008 unique authors

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. — Eckhart Tolle
The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration… — Geddy Lee
Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common… — Barack Obama
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation… — Maria Montessori
I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught… — Thomas Jefferson
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the… — Jostein Gaarder
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love. — Tara Brach
Dreams are reality at its most profound. — Eugene Ionesco
It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring… — Buck Brannaman
To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement. — Sally Field
I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines, — Rand Paul
In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker… — Sebastian Junger
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound… — Mao Zedong
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have… — Frida Kahlo
We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos. — Carl Sagan
When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no… — Cheryl Richardson
It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide… — Huston Smith
Buying is profound pleasure. — Simone de Beauvoir
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed… — Anne Lamott
James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why, — Montgomery Clift
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time. — Orhan Pamuk
Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster… — Richard Rohr

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