Insight Quotes

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.

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

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.

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.

I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Your impact on the lives of others-your family, the people at your church, your workmates-is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.

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.

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.

Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.

Von to Silver

If you help someones bank account rise
But you can't help their heart feel...
Really, what is your value?

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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.