Insight Quotes
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"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."
"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."
"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."
"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil."
"Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk."
"They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?"
"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."
"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."
"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."
"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outsidethe box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself."
"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."
"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."
"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."
"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."
"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."
"The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity."
"I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps."
"My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him."
"An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape."
"Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna."
"Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others."
"Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver"
"You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do..."
"Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. is before you.True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight."
"D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'."
"Those who understand will understand."
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength"
"You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart."
"Love isn't about what you do for me. Love for me is where I see myself in relation to you."
"How we give matters. If your thoughts & goals are selfish, than so be your fief. For it is through the heart that we prosper & through each other that we grow."
"who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,"
"People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound."
"The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life."
"All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience."
"I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer."
"Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it."
"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
"We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone."
"Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma."
"If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand."
"It is crucial to understand the difference between knowledge, which are facts and data, wisdom, which is your ability to judge and determine which aspects of your knowledge are applicable and useful to your life, and insight, which is the deepest level of knowing based on experience, and the most meaningful to your life and success."
Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
"When knowledge is put into practice, then through your experience of it, it becomes your insight."
Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
"Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King."
"Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company."
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