Quotes About Insight

Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

I think you're never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.