Superficiality Quote by John Ortberg

“Everything down to the way we plan, dress, work, and talk is based on the assumption that there is only really the external physical…

— Aletheia Luna

“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator so completely…

— John Piper

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

— George Eliot

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage…

— Andre Maurois

“We are creating a world in which what nourishes the soul rarely makes people employable, and what makes them employable often crushes the soul.…

— Louis Yako

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words…

— Sylvia Plath

“Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your…

— Virginia Woolf

“We're not shallow people. Rather, we've just gotten used to relating on levels that avoid soul issues.”

— Kary Oberbrunner

“Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body lean, monstrous,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche