Quotes About Insight

We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.

He is a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

Cuando la miras a los ojos, te das cuenta de que ha estado donde ha estado y ha visto lo que ha visto y ha hecho lo que ha hecho. Y que ahora sabe.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

It is the best of times because we have entered a period, if we can bring ourselves to pay attention, of great clarity as to cause and effect.

But in this time we are beginning to see and hear from mothers and fathers who assume the role of Those Who Also Know. The world is getting its Elders back.

What I love best about Shug is what she been through, I say. When you look in Shug's eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident.

In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool.

Still, it is like Shug say, You have to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall

a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the moreI love. (pg. 283)

What I love best bout her is what she been through, I say. When you look in her eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.

There is so much that able-bodied people could learn from the wisdom that often comes with disability. But space needs to be made. Hands need to be reached out. People need to be lifted up.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

When the lights came back on, Max the Little Monster felt something new. He began to notice things he hadn't noticed before.

about Scotland's history, I saw parts of it in a completely new light. In Jim Hunter's memorable phrase, I compiled an archive of the feet.

A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.

What is commonly called 'women's intuition' is mostly a woman's acute ability to notice small details and changes in the appearance or behaviour of others. It's something that, throughout history, has bewildered men who play around - and are invariably caught.

Prophetic poetry has alway drawn me. . . . Prophecy is not ingratiating poetry, and I like that [Prophecy and Poetry, Out of the Garden ].

Kids can tell when teachers are trying," Collin said. "It's like how dogs smell fear.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.