Quotes About Insight

That's what spending time with the young can do -- it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

She would owe this understanding to her time in New York, and even more to Louise. That's what spending time with the young can do--it's the big pay-off for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also dray you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

toda historia es como un gran pastel, cada quién da cuenta de la tajada que se come y el único que da cuenta de todo es el pastelero.

Hasta en la sombra más profunda podemos buscar, y tal vez encontrar, una luz oculta.

There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you" -Babcia

She read and reread all kinds of books for all kinds of reasons, complicated reasons.

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?

nothing has ever happened to Miss Marple. Everything happens around her, and this is the point: she has become wise through observation, not through experience.

it; she must find out all she could.

I'd never listened so carefully to something I didn't want to hear.

It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

Bide your time, until things begin to make sense

NEVER LIE TO SOMEONE WHO IS LIKELY TO SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU.

RULE 3: PEOPLE SO OFTEN DON'T SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.

May I ask you a personal question?" "Of course," his father said. "Though if it's how to manage a woman like Rowan, I have no advice. You've met your mother. Women like them do whatever they like and men like us hold on and enjoy the ride." Goddess wasn't that the truth.

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

I want to be a wise woman

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

Sometimes, in the movie theater or the supermarket, I look around at people who I suppose live their lives without a chemical crutch, and they amaze me.

I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.