Jestliže ne, pak jak? Jak jsem mohl nalézti spor, když jsem byl obestřen přeludem, v němž žádný spor nebyl!

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

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.

To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

There was no mistaking her sincerity–it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley...

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

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...

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best;...

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking – all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

Progress? Oh, I think so. The iceman melteth.

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.

When we’re in the story, when we’re part of it, we can’t know the outcome. It’s only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And...

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.

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

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren’t facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will...

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high...

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...

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.

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 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.

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...

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 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.

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.