It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I...

There’s a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

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...

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

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...

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...

Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance.

Sometimes life holds more than people allow themselves to see. Such individuals may continue to live as though they are blind for eternities before realizing they were merely clamping their eyes shut.

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...

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

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.

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...

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

Kitabu cha KOLONIA SANTITA kinaweza kusomwa na watu wenye umri wa kuanzia miaka 13 na kuendelea. Katika umri wa miaka 13 fikra za mtoto huanza kuwa na maono na utambuzi wa vitu mbalimbali. Watoto katika...

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

You can’t do that, it makes too much sense.

The world is a merrier place to live if people do things more out of sincerity, not just out of formality.

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....

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

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves...

…your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion… Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or...

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

a burning light(light having oil) will burn to a glowing light which will grow into a shining light to become an illuminator

Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science.

The lies they’ve convinced their eyes that they’re seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens.

If they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

And, to be true, an enemy’s lair is an enemy’s lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Hey you —All our fevered history won’t instill insight,won’t turn a body conscious,won’t make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.

I see the life with your sight,O” the love; you’re my light.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

A Prayer for Daily InsightOpen my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don’t...

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

…but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.

Be positive. Stay happy and don’t let the negativity of the world get you down.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which...

Once you understand who you are, you can become more of what you are.

It seems to me that my whole life I’ve been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I...

I knew everything! Yet, I’m still not perfect.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

You can only fail to pick the Castellan’s pocket once