It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of...

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...

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away all the flimflam and artifice and learned morality and leave you with nothing but the urgency of survival. – Dr....

We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those...

He’s threatening to breed polo ponies, but he’s always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don’t suppose he will.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

When women criticized men, I called it ‘insight’… When men criticized women, I called it ‘sexism’ and ‘backlash.’

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

I’ve always been fascinated by weather.

discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

high” itself.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own...

Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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 the soul, which always results in positive change for humanity.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

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

You’re a lot of horrible things – untehical, sociopathic, evil even – but you’re no idiot.

The divine is in the present and you must be present to experience it. When you vacate the present and recede into your mind, allowing worries or work to remove you from the moment, you leave the plain upon which the divine dwells. When you are constantly under the anesthetic of digital distraction, you withdraw;...

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

By gazing inward the true reflection of the self is revealed.

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.

If you do not know you are in danger, you are that danger. You do not know me, but I come in peace; if you think that is strange, then you are the stranger.

Live your best life.Live your dreams.

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight – isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can...

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through the unexpected, then you have a confidence based on the fact that you know exactly where God wants you to be.

God’s strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

The voice says, maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.

…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, and not then really because the things they did and didn’t do, sometimes live on.

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd,...

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

Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding

By giving us more work, of course.

Being angry at the mistakes made by the heart will only leave you bitter.

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 mean that it’s all right to go to bed with an asshole but don’t ever have a baby with one.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Knowing “Attitude is Everything” is just right ,but understanding what is truly the right attitude is justly the greatest thing for everyone’s life.

The meaning of an education learned by a person is not truly measured by his growth attained in the profession, but by his action reflected in his assigned task consistently towards bringing the mark of excellence and perfection.

A person who is not getting job for long only needs the right opportunity to present himself through introduction ,but he who is in the same job for long requires the right and thorough introspection.

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...

Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came...

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.