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.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to...

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

Littlewood, on Hardy’s own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who...

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...

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of...

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

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

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...

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

Would you rather have sight, or insight? I’d rather have a double cheeseburger.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More...

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...

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