Quotes About Insight

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the 'Why's" and the 'Who's' of life, the 'How's' and 'What's' of life start to come into focus as well. "

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it

You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire.

Advice is autobiography.

One is not born wise

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

The real gift of today is somehow finding the me I knew ought to exist but has not.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

A better understanding is a good factor in all things for it gives good reasons for good actions, but to come to a certain understanding, you need to get a certain understanding!

There was a time when I do not understand poetry.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life!

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Sometimes one doesn't have to be part of the experience to realize and learn from the experience.

When your Knowledge is Linked Together it is called Experience.

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

God's way of thinking should become our way of thinking