Quotes About Profound

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

Life itself is a quotation.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.

Truly, deep and profound words do not make a person holy and upright, but a good life is what makes us dear to God. I would rather experience sorrow for my ungodly thoughts and actions than simply be skillful in defining "repentance.

The vitality of literary character has less to do with dramatic action, novelistic coherence, and even plain plausibility—let alone likeability—than with a larger philosophical or metaphysical sense, our awareness that a character's actions are deeply important, that something profound is at stake, with the author brooding over the face of that character like God over the face of the waters.

When you listen deeply, and allow a connection to emerge, the resulting conversations can be profound, creative and extremely useful.

That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!

Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

when he says that most of us find adversity unacceptable; we live in child's fantasy that everything should work out as we want it to. Like so many Buddhists before him, Fischer recognizes that suffering is universal. It happens to everybody. Yet embracing it offers us a key. "It is exactly in digesting the profundity of our difficulties that life opens up to us," Fischer says.6

People often make the mistake of believing that profound quotes were intended to be all-encompassing. Anti-proverbs, while comical, do not necessarily diminish the insight gained from words of wisdom.

lady through whose profound and fragile lips the sweet small clumsy feet of April came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.

I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Something deeper had to be hidden behind things.

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

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

Los mejores escritores tienen una única obra, que las escriben en veinticinco libros o lo que vos quieras, pero, es una sola obra.