Quotes About Insight

The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...

When I wrote my first book, I wrote all of it to a short list of very specific musical selections I sought out, music I found would bring out the right emotion or the right kind of expression in whatever I was writing at the moment.

Problems are messages.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

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Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision.

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Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.

I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

She knew it! Charlotte just knew it! And now her daughter was boyfriend-less! Yes! Wait-no! Oh no, poor Lu.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn. The question is, are we smart enough to figure for ourselves?

Poets seem to know things that scientists don't. And vice versa. Maybe they balance each other out somehow.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.