Quotes About Insight

She's an original. Doesn't recognize crazy.

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a purée of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

It took some time to figure out the motives for faking love—hers and theirs. Survival, she supposed, literal and emotional.

All this she saw in their eyes, and the sight filled her own with water warmer and much older than the rain.

When I teach creative writing, I always speak about how you have to learn how to read your work." —Toni Morrison

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Oh, sure. You have to know what's wrong before you can find what's right.

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

Los problemas que surgen en nuestra vida de oración se deben a que muy pocos de nosotros comprendemos realmente cuáles son nuestros derechos espirituales.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

Why did it take me so long to figure out that my special talent was trying?

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

mad monk, minus the spiritual insight.

No basta, a fin de cuentas, con «matar al padre»: también es preciso comprenderlo. De lo contrario, en el peor de los casos, uno se arriesga a repetir sus mismos errores. Salvo

Sometimes I have the most amazing moments of clarity. Razor sharp, crystal clear. It's at these times I can see how fucking stupid I am.

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.

Everybody asks the same questions -- but they don't know that they ask the same questions.

in the cartoon of Sight. It

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

It is true, monsieur! At a certain age your sight comes back, rejuvenated.

Isak Dinesen went so far as to say, "There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

When people tell their stories again and again, turning them over and over, they're trying to make or find meaning in them. That meaning is something they have to discover for themselves. As painful as the process might be, there is no circumnavigating it, either with the most thoughtful ideas you can offer or with the most hackneyed clichés. The meaning a person finds will almost never be the same one you can come up with. It will always be richer, more nuanced, more surprising.

Some ignorance is invincible.