Quotes About Insight

Moreover, what purpose, if any, is served by your stories? Whom do they benefit?

For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?

How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself

I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer.

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They knew me as the one who got jacked up on rage and didn't know what to do with it, until a dog dug a ball from a corner of his kennel and brought it to my side, as thought to ask, Have you thought of this?

When you discover something long after others have known it, there is a heady contentment that comes.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming , she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

These are the things I know are true ...

A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

I asked myself, What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person? And then I saw the curtains blowing wildly, and outside rain was falling harder, causing everyone to scurry and shout. I smiled. And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wing. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried the water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside. It caused men to yelp and dance.

I remember the day when I finally knew a genuine thought and could follow where it went.

I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.

If you have a seriousness of purpose, which is to understand yourself, human nature, the world, and the conflicts that make us infinitely interesting, you will find the stories that you want o tell.

use your brain as cleverly as you use your hips and mouth.

Tengo más experiencia que los demás, he vivido algo que casi nadie conoce a mi edad

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.