Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver

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.

By giving us more work, of course.

I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

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...

Some blind faithfully; some see.

The Medusa”)

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...

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

…that’s the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don’t end, at least until their heroes and heroines die,...

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you’ve loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you’ve slept in her bed.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn’t flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it’s always there. We are our past. There is nothing...

A stumble may prevent a fall.

THOUGHTS are the WORDS supported with the ACTION and both are not independent of each other to produce results.

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

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.

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as...

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights...

Angels love to create synchronicities because each synchronicity produces an illumination point for a soul to connect the dots on life experiences. This insight, in turn, creates an opportunity to expand the heart and grow...

We can’t expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone – the understanding has...

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.

Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.

Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don’t yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.”[Ten rules for writing fiction (The...

Of the obstacles we face while traversing life, the most challenging are often the ones we create from within and project onto our path.

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

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...

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist’s head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there...

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 world...

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The...

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of...

I have an iron deficiency. You can tell by how wrinkled my clothes are.

I just hope the woman I invited over to dinner shares our insightful perspective.

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight...

Rebellion is all we’ll be talking about. Love is revolution, a kind of coup d’état and cultural reprogramming in its own little way.

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...

Not everything is understood the way it is presented and not everyone presents the way it is understood.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That’s increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much...

It is true that we choose our life, but it’s also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.

What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

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.