Quotes about Insight
I am the best and sharpest critic of my own work. I know myself what is and what is not well written. Anyone who doesn't write doesn't know how wonderful it is.
— Anne Frank
Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.
— Anne Frank
I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.
— Anne Frank
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
— Anne Lamott
Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?
— Anne Lamott
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.
— Anne Lamott
The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise
— Anne Lamott
They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.
— Anne Lamott
Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein.
— Anne Lamott
A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost
— Anne Lamott
And I'd stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it's right there on the tip of your psychic tongue but you can't get it back. The image is gone. That is one of the worst feelings I can think of, to have had a wonderful moment or insight or vision or phrase, to know you had it, and then to lose it.
— Anne Lamott
Augustine's insight that to search for God is to have found God is deeply profound, because the belief we hold in the existence of another world opens space within us, and around us, which creates a more radiant reality. A radiance is inside us, just as it is visible outside us, and to seek it is maybe to catch a glimpse from time to time of a light within, of a candle at the window of our heart, of a home somewhere inside.
— Anne Lamott