Quotes About Insight

Mi madre... poseía una sensibilidad en constante alerta, que tanto mi padre como ella misma tenían por su falla más visible.

Por eso, no estoy asombrado de que, a medida que Avellaneda se fue enterando de cómo había sido Isabel, yo también me haya ido enterando de cómo había sido yo.

El mundo del descalzo no precisa de filtros, simplemente nos da lecciones de realidades varias.

we are much better at judging other peoplethan at analyzing ourselves.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.

For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and she realized that no matter where she went in the world, she would have a point of view that no one else could possibly have.

New ideas are so important. The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.

To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.

It is possible to drown in information... and die for lack of wisdom.

Develop some intellectual curiosity. If you have it, you will never be bored. If you haven't, cultivate it, hold fast to it. Never let it go. To the intellectually curious, the world will always be full of magic, full of wonder. You will be interesting to your friends, to your spouse, and a joy to your children. You will be alive to all the wonderful possibilities of this world.

change of pace + change of place = change of perspective.

Prayer isn't just the way we cultivate our own potential; prayer is the way we recognize potential in others. Like Paul, who saw gifts in Timothy that Timothy couldn't see in himself, we, through prayer, are enabled to see with prophetic eyes. We are given supernatural insight. Then we are prepared to speak with prophetic boldness into the lives God has positioned in our path.

Sometimes God gets in the way to show us the way.

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.

Our biggest problem is our small view of God.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. Prayer gives us a God's-eye view. It heightens our awareness and gives us a sixth sense that enables us to perceive spiritual realities that are beyond our five senses.

Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.