Quotes About Insight

Pero en el fondo lo sabía. Era la primera mujer que lo veía. No a su apariencia física, ni a sus proezas de guerrero. Ella veía su alma.

You don't even know me. (Adron) Yes, I do. You try to hide what you are, but I see it. It shines through your bitterness with a brightness not even you can extinguish. (Livia)

Most good judgement comes from exprerience, most experience comes from bad judgement

People see their own sins in others.

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

Life experience is the best teacher.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

If you live the questions, life will move you into answers.

That's what's good about life - that you always learn.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.