Quotes About Insight

As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

What good is strength if you have no sense?

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

Today life opened inside me like an egg.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

The interior life is often stupid.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.