Quotes About Profound

I felt in that moment that we all have a choice now between two profound forces—fragmentation, or flow. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us. I asked myself: Do you want to be one of Skinner's pigeons, atrophying your attention on dancing for crude rewards, or Mihaly's painters, able to concentrate because you have found something that really matters?

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

S]he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms—a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual.

The Ancient of days.

Quien alguna vez ha leído con atención estos textos, ya no los podrá olvidar nunca. Estas historias han impactado interiormente a hombres y mujeres a lo largo de los siglos.

I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.

Rozgotuj do samych koÅ›ci sÅ'owa, które ju? znasz, a zwykle na dnie garnka znajdziesz wpatrzone w ciebie oczy staro?ytnych.

If each word was a tapestry, it had been spun out of razor wire.

I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.