Quotes About Insight

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

This life is a process of learning.

It's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many different sides to everybodys personality and there's just different colours to a personality.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

We can only know others by ourselves.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.