Quotes about Insight

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.