Quotes About Profound

#1. People were unable to appreciate the worth of what was profound and stable which provided them with a safe anchor, so ruminated Mahendra. On the other hand, people foolishly ran after what was ephemeral and deceptive which gave one no real contentment - life's most desirable prize!

Sukhendu Ray

#2. Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.

Dan Brown

#3. When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

Bell Hooks

#4. The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

C.L.R. James

#5. Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

Michael Josephson

#7. Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

Molly Shannon

#9. The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.

Mayim Bialik

#10. Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years ... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

Bob Ainsworth

#11. People often overlook the profound intimacy which can be felt by performing the smallest acts for someone they love. Never underestimate the energy that can be felt by simply sharing the same space with your soulmate. It is that electricity between two people that causes time to cease to exist.

Leanne R. Clute

#12. I shall say another word for the most select ears: what I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm. I

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. His guitar bore his longing up into the darkness like sparks, a music profound in its objectless desire, beautiful beyond solace or solution

Janet Fitch

#14. Monastic prayer begins not so much with "considerations" as with a "return to the heart," finding one's deepest center, awakening the profound depths of our being

Thomas Merton

#15. 'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

Anna Torv

#16. Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

Joni Rodgers

#17. That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Carmen Laforet

#18. What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

Rod Stryker

#20. The most profound questions are best explored through fiction.

Paul Kieniewicz

#21. The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#22. Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Jimmy Carter

#23. There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.

Gregory David Roberts

#24. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

Bill Brandt

#25. I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

Patricia Polacco

#26. You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.

Dean Koontz

#27. I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

Augusten Burroughs

#28. The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.

Benjamin Franklin

#29. It doesn't matter how powerfully sexuality, one with your being, moves; it's all profound goodness. You're safe in it. What you know in it, of its depth and its quality, is what you're saying yes to, what you're resting in, what you're warmed in.

John De Ruiter

#30. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

Chogyam Trungpa

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

Suze Orman

#32. Christianity has its roots in the profound sense of exile.

Philip H. Pfatteicher

#33. Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?

James Joyce

#34. I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Steve Earle

#35. We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

George W. Bush

#36. You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.

Robert Greene

#37. Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Ram Dass

#38. If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1.5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

David Brooks

#39. Someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound.

Erin Morgenstern

#40. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

#41. It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

Jim Gaffigan

#42. Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#43. The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#44. It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#45. Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

George Friedman

#46. Emotions form pure, profound bonds
Emotions may blind us but they bind us.

Balroop Singh

#47. The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

Pope John Paul II

#48. It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

Jerry A. Coyne

#49. The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

Ned Vizzini

#50. All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

Herman Melville

#51. I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach.

Sylvia Plath

#52. What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely ... Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#53. Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

John Gardner

#54. Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

David Boreanaz

#55. Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

Stephen Levine

#56. What I feel for you...it can be neither quantified nor defined. It is so profound, so revolutionary, that no methods to date are equipped to even measure it. A new word should be imagined just to express the depth and scope of it, because 'love' does not even come close.

Joanna Shupe

#57. Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

Robert Motherwell

#58. A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it did not turn out quite differently.

Aubrey Menen

#59. Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Pope Benedict XVI

#60. Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#61. The economic times we are facing ... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

Alistair Darling

#62. was profound insight of a spiritual nature that could help me live my everyday life unconstrained by conflict, either with others or within myself. These

Sun Tzu

#63. You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Marco Rubio

#64. If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!

Willie Jolley

#65. There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.

Marilynne Robinson

#66. The weight of time and history felt profound in the quiet night in a tiny chapel with several wooden pews and a granite altar. If I were a religious man, someplace like this might move me to speak with God.

Bonnie Dee

#67. I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.

Bocafloja

#68. You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

Pamela Des Barres

#69. It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

Julianna Baggott

#70. The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

Michael Heizer

#71. Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

Geoff Lawton

#72. 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'!

Jan Struther

#73. When profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.

Dan O'Brien

#74. The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.

Pope Francis

#75. There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as a provocation, but I also believe that we can still have very profound creativity with a moral sense.

Tariq Ramadan

#76. When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.

Henry Blackaby

#77. Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

Charles Caleb Colton

#78. This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique perspective and a lot of time to reflect on what my next step should be on our continued journey to help further our capabilities in space and on Earth.

Scott Kelly

#79. When things went wrong they had the consolations of religion. This wasn't just a readiness to accept Fate; this was a quiet and profound conviction about the vanity of all human endeavour.

V.S. Naipaul

#80. The profound divergences of opinion on war and peace had been shown to know no sex.

Sylvia Pankhurst

#81. SORTING HAT: "Albus Potter."
He puts his hat on Albus's head - and this time he seems to take longer - almost as if he too is confused.
"SLYTHERIN!"
There's a silence.
A perfect, profound silence.
One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it.

J.K. Rowling

#82. It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

Danielle Dutton

#83. Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed ...

Hizkias Assefa

#84. Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Simon McBurney

#85. Everyone gets scared, like it's some big profound statement?

Elizabeth Scott

#86. I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

Ray Manzarek

#87. Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Bobby Scott

#88. That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lesley Garrett

#89. Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

James Turrell

#90. You have the freedom to trust and the freedom to turn. This is the profound and sometimes painful mystery of community and love.

William Paul Young

#91. No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Richard Curtis

#92. Semi mystic very profound life of a woman, which shall all be told on one occasion; & time shall be utterly obliterated

Virginia Woolf

#93. Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

Bill Gates

#94. I knew that these people were not idiots, so the only thing I could attribute their insane response to was a profound lack of courage and intellectual integrity.

Patrick Lencioni

#95. There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

Eric Hoffer

#96. I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.

Jennifer Lopez

#97. Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

#98. 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 verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

Nirmala Srivastava

#99. Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

Friedrich Schiller

#100. Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

Ian McEwan