Quotes About Insight

You don't need a weatherman—to know which way the wind blows.

Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

we didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.

I will unravel here.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.

Hay una voz interior, si estamos dispuestos a escucharla, que nos dice con toda certeza cuándo adentrarnos en lo desconocido

Los que recuerdan los sueños saben que muchas de nuestras preguntas encuentran allí una respuesta

Learning life's lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself.

People aren't the same when they've lived in India. It changes them, I've often noticed it.

I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your body agrees so much with what your mind just said.

Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.

The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further

Kids don't really see old people. A lot of people don't.

loved that he wasn't afraid of my mother, that he seemed to see past everything and acknowledge her as a person. It was a rare thing. Brooks had gotten all excited and said yes, that was right, he'd thought about that himself, he'd get to work on a design for it at the store tomorrow.

A living parable

They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.

Getting lost is the only way to find what you didn't know you were looking for.

Marriage is a funny thing. It only really makes sense to the ones who are in it together, and not even always then.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.