Quotes About Insight

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

We do not see into the world in which God lives, but He definitely sees into ours.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts," John Wooden once said.

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).

REFLECTING ON THE MEANING

I've worked in the medical field for years as a nurse. I try to know the ins and outs of the health-care system, but nothing challenges a person as much as when his or her own family members become ill.

Orang-orang tahu bahwa terkadang pelajaran terbesar kita terletak pada rasa sakit yang paling menyakitkan.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

It was strange enough to think that Norah knew who I was before I knew who she was. That she'd been in Tris's orbit without me noticing. But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's hitting me.

There's truly a story on every corner. But still might be a shock, to realize you are just one story walking among millions

I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

and at first i didn't really know jed was although i was sure he knew that i was but gradually we both knew and we knew.