Quotes About Insight

I know it won't work and it doesn't work because some things you don't need to hear in order to hear. The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.

You can tell a lot about a person from the pages he or she chooses to journal on—I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy.

If we looked through the eyes of history, we'd live differently. We'd live right.

But it was her life rather than her words that gave the plainest counsel.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?

Anyone can listen to an exciting story; but a good listener is like a determined gold prospector patiently digging through the mud to find a little nugget of the prized metal.

Saber es mucho más que conocer, como conocer es mucho más que calcular y poder predecir. Saber es saborear y, como diremos enseguida, también amar.

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

One thing we've noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don't want to see, so they go blind." "Selectively blind.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka

to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

Curtis' mother always said that the better you know others, the better you will know yourself, and that in the fullest sharing of experience, we learn the wisdom of the world.

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself—always, always, always—and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.