Best 967 quotes in «profound quotes» category

It seemed inconceivable that such an inferno, lofting embers into the heavens and scorching the clouds themselves, could have started with the tiny spark struck from my flint and nursed by my breath. Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.

it’s miraculous how the shallow can injure in such a profound way.

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.

I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road?

I was talking about time. It`s so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it`s just my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it`s not. [...] What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don`t think it, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. [...] Someday you be walking down the road and you hear something or see something going on. So clear. And you think it`s you thinking it up. A thought picture. But no. It`s when you bump into a rememory that belongs to somebody else.

I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths. Insightful, p.194

It’s not really impressive when there isn’t another option. What am I supposed to do, be all ‘woe is me’ for the rest of my life? I still get access to the same sunrises everyone else does, the same 24 hours in a day. And if I don’t take advantage of those things, it’s my own fault.

I've seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it's all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you're in it, it's all just day-to-day, right? And isn't that what you have to make your peace with?

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

may my faith always be at the end of the day like a hummingbird...returning to its favorite flower.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

LINK OUT OF SYNC When the mind fails to keep pace with the body's maturity Kamil Ali

MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers

Money, you could say, was the elephant in The Room.

MISTEND MINDSET Manipulate suicidal thoughts to manufacture life-coping tools

MENTAL LAMENT Anagram depicting life sentence for materialists Kamil Ali

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.

most of the times it’s the hardest to say what I love more you or your memory.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.

Most people do kiss and tell; most of them just don’t tell many people.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

OPTICAL ILLUSION Political correctness Kamil Ali

Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom.

People are shaped by their emotions. That which profoundly affects them has a place in their hearts.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

No other writer tells a story so well and with so much profound philosophy as Haruki Murakami does!

ORTHODOX PARADOX Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated Kamil Ali

PASSIVE PAVISSE- ANAGRAM: Shield yourself from aggressors - Walk away without acknowledgement

PATCHES' OF AUTHORITY Preteens Adhere, Teens Challenge, Hideout, Elderly Shun Kamil Ali

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali

Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.

Radiation can have profound effects on current and pre-existing injuries.

READ- Render Educational Accentuated Discourse

RACE CARE Anagram/Acronym: Respect, Accept & Coexist Ethnically Kamil Ali