Quotes About Insight

I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.

As challenging as it can be from businesses to relationships to anything else, if we ground ourselves in the respect to hear the other side, differentiate our opinion from proven and vetted facts, while remove the insulting and attacking elements, we can create impactful conversations of change.

Your mistakes are not learning experiences if you are not learning from them.

Nunca dejes de respetar a alguien que tiene tiempo para aburrirse. De ahí salen los sabios.

Any idea what she said, Dain?" "Yes." "What was it?" "Men are ignorant brutes." "You sure?" "Quite.

The witless destroy what they don't understand.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Typically, a patient might have a difficult session about a childhood trauma, then come in the next week and announce that therapy is no longer needed.

Maybe our pasts don't define us but inform us.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

Who looks inside, awakes.

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." What

People want to be understood and to understand, but for most of us, our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle. Why do I do the very thing that will guarantee my own unhappiness over and over again?

I know that often people create faulty narratives to make themselves feel better in the moment even though it makes them feel worse over time—and that sometimes, they need somebody else to read between the lines.

Insight is the booby prize of therapy" is my favorite maxim of the trade, meaning that you can have all the insight in the world, but if you don't change when you're out in the world, the insight—and the therapy—is worthless. Insight allows you to ask yourself, Is this something that's being done to me or am I doing it to myself? The answer gives you choices, but it's up to you to make them.

Every day, our patients are opening up questions that we have to think about for ourselves. If they can see themselves more clearly through our reflections, we can see ourselves more clearly through theirs.

I remember a quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." I've always felt that made sense, but, like most of us, I also believe that I should be able to think my way out of my problem by going over and over how I thought myself into it.

our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle. Why do I do the very thing that will guarantee my own unhappiness over and over again?

The great tragedy is that knowledge-even incomplete-comes late.

You either photograph what you know, or you photograph what you want to know. But the giants photograph what they don't want to know.

I'm going to do better than that.' An adrenalin rush of determination accompanied her words. 'I'm going to find out why he is the way he is, and make his life better.

Experience is what you get when you didn't know what you wanted.

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

Okay," Max piped up. "I have a girlfriend now so I know this one. When Rory says 'wow' like that, it's not a compliment. It means she's thinking long and hard on how and when I'll pay for my stupidity.