686 Quotes About Insight

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Your Life can easily flow and be filled with joy. Embrace the possibilities!

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

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

Memories are the only moments when smiling & crying takes place at the same moment.

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.

I don't have to agree with everything someone says, but everyone has something I could assimilate to make my own insight stronger and clearer.