146 quotes found
“I see the life with your sight,O" the love; you're my light.”
“The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; its not a one-way thin...”
“Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.”
“One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect.”
“Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.”
“Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to s...”
“Insight involves trust - trusting that the information coming through is correct.”
“Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.”
“Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”
“We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed”
“I had a heady dream of loving her, as if she were an actress on a stage of my own making; and as the night wore on, my imaginings wandered into make-believe, and died beyond the tent of the mosquit...”
“Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal drive.”
“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a ...”
“Some of the greatest insights we have ever experienced were those we least expected.”
“I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it.”
“When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.”
“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”
“Life is beautiful and this earth is heaven, but your mind is capable enough to create hell for you, on this very earth, if you go on living your life, without understanding.”
“Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let ones thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce, ...”
“Wonderthe enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledgepromises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the s...”
