Quotes About Insight

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply.

My deepest wounds and greatest strengths lie in my ability to see the potential for relationship in my life.

and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had never seen a hawk in my life.

For one awful, long moment she is hanging head-downward, wings open, like a turkey in a butcher's shop, only her head is turned right-way-up and she is seeing more than she has ever seen before in her whole short life. Her world was an aviary no larger than a living room. Then it was a box. But now it is this; and she can see everything:

Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman:

That the boy in short trousers was already the man they'd known, the man who had always got the picture, had always pulled the story from the jaws of defeat.

What we see in the lives of animals are lessons we've learned from the world.

It struck me then that perhaps the bareness and wrongness of the world was an illusion; that things might still be real, and right, and beautiful, even if I could not see them - that if I stood in the right place, and was lucky this might somehow be revealed to me.

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.

When I saw you for the first time, I thought you had a secret life.

Didn't she know that knowing why doesn't make things any less scary?

Easy to see the solution when you're not in the story, isn't it.

Funny to do something and then realise the reason for it afterwards.

know the risk I run when I find fault with people more often than I look for something to appreciate. It's like having grit in your eye; you see less and less of the real person standing right in front of you and more and more of the grit in your eye.

Lily's eye transformed places. She looked at structures and they turned inside out and offered her their desolate jigsaw patterns. Once

When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

Sometimes our subconscious is so transparent it's boring

Very few people can watch others endure humiliation without recognizing the part they play in increasing it.

Harriet read more voraciously than Simon and Margot ever had. They discouraged this; she'd be so bored once she ran out of texts that were new to her. She surprised them with the discovery that once an avid reader runs out of books, she reads people. Harriet read everybody she met, and when she met them again, she reread them.

She thought I hadn't seen her, but she's no good at hiding her intentions. She can't help tiptoeing around with a finger to her lips at key moments.