686 Quotes About Insight

I had less and became more.

Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

An old man may not literally see clear and bright like a youth but his sight of insight is sharpened by ageing. The youth is incited by this sight.

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

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.

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.