Quotes About Insight

Paul Theroux

Why is it . . . that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

Paul Theroux

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travellers don't know where they're going.

the subject of boredom.

I asked them to amplify a bit.

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.