Profound Quotes - Page 32

• As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Differences, Our World, Community

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.13, New World Library

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• 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

  Short Life, Rain, Puddles

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• Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Flow, Surrender

  Twitter post from Nov 08, 2012

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• 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 to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.

  Geddy Lee

  Inspiration, Hero, Condolences

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• 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 humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths. In that spirit, I wish Muslims across America and around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem.

  Barack Obama

  Blessed, Commitment, Compassion

  "President Obama’s Statement On Ramadan", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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• 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 of discipline within the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Discipline, Tranquility

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• 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 but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Doctrine, Taught

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• 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 lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Cousin, Attitude, Literary Genre

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• 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 course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Citizens, Shapes, Athens

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.

  Tara Brach

  Expression, Attention, Pay Attention

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• Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Reality

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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• 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 a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

  Buck Brannaman

  Waiting, May, Littles

  Buck Brannaman (2003). “Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen”, p.126, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

  Sally Field

  Children, Achievement, Parent

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• I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Talking, Vaccines

  "Science Of Vaccines Is Settled - But Politics Are More Complicated". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. February 3, 2015.

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• 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 who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.

  Sebastian Junger

  Spiritual, War, Eye

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• 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 grasp of the practical movement.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Political, Victory

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.537, Routledge

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• 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 frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Order, Mind

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• We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Cosmos

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• 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 relationship or amount of money will ever give you.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Self Esteem, Giving, Intuition

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• Movement has the capacity to take us to the home
  of the soul, the world within for which we have
  no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature,
  and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance,
  we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives.
  When brought forth from the inside and forged by
  the desire to create personal change, dance has the
  profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

  Anna Halprin

  Life, Change, Dance

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• 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 (comprehensive) as it is deep (profound). What he mined from that lode is a spiritual treasure.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Gold, Treasure

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• Buying is profound pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Buying, Pleasure

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• 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 as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Lonely, Dirty

  "Eating Healthy: Habits To Help You Live a Life That Satisfies the Soul" By Anne Lamott, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Dean, Heard, Instant

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• 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 to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Distance, Thinking, Encounters

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