Quotes About Insight

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

You can't truly understand something until it happens to you. The meaning of life is discovered in the experience.

The less we allow ourselves to be touched by life's full array of experiences, the less life reaches out to touch us with the depth of its meaning.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head. —Lame Deer

You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.

Look at the real reality beneath the sham realities of things and gadgets," Leonard always tells me. "Look through the eye in your heart. That's the meaning of Indian religion.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

Dear Jesus, I pray you will show me the importance of humbling myself like a little child. Instead of instructor today, help me put on the hat of "learner." Use my children, Lord, to teach me more about you. Use their words to point me to your Word. Use their freedom to infuse freedom into my heart.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Watch and you will find the magic.

A simple chain we had both cursed had done the unthinkable - it forced us to see the world through each other's eyes.

Know your enemies as well as you know your allies. Know them better. Make their business yours.

sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

I don't think there is any book that can't teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.