Quotes About Insight

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

Love sees all; hate is blind.

I just love historical fiction.

The observer is the observed.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

I love writing songs.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

It is by love alone that we understand anything

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.