Insight Quotes

Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.

~ Nikki Rowe

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity.They have reflected back to me,everything that I refuseto See in myself.

~ Meraaqi

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

~ Vivienne Westwood

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

~ Philip Roth

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

~ James Robertson

To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

~ Edward Abbey

Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing big an illusion. So when the moment comes, and everything you depend upon changes, or perhaps someone you love disappears, or no longer loves you, must disaster follow? Or will you-somehow-adapt?

~ Margaret Overton

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.

~ Black Elk

Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God whispered, You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Someone once told me that when you die every deed you ever committed, whether on behalf of good or bad is represented in the form of pebbles. Black ones for every deed done in the name of evil, white ones for every act of good. The pebbles are weighed upon a great scale, and if the white stones outweigh the black then your soul is granted peace.”He opens one bleary eye. “What’s the punishment for too many black acts?”“There is no worse punishment than standing on the threshold of heaven alone.

~ Ellis Adler

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.

~ Neil Gaiman

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

~ R. Scott Bakker

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

~ R. Scott Bakker

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

~ R. Scott Bakker

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.

~ R. Scott Bakker

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

And I know few would believe me but belief is what drives a man,If all of us long for the Golden Age, then we all can,Bring the days filled with peace, prosperity, generosity, love and fearless nigh',We all must believe something to survive, I believe in the serene age lost in seasons gone by.

~ Adhish Mazumder

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

~ Leeza Donatella

Insight is vision through the ‘mind’s eyes.

~ Pearl Zhu

A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.

~ Sebastian Marincolo

Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life.

~ Evita Ochel

Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In reality, the trivialization of women's curiosity so that it seems like nothing more than irksome snooping denies women's insight, hunches, and intuitions. It denies all her senses. It attempts to attack her fundamental power.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires, and obsessive thoughts. But in this period of exceptional creativity, we are impelled by the need to get something done that has a practical effect. We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality. Instead of flitting here and there in a state of perpetual distraction, our minds focus and penetrate to the core of something real. At these moments, it is as if our minds—turned outward—are now flooded with light from the world around us, and suddenly exposed to new details and ideas, we become more inspired and creative.

~ Robert Greene

Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth

~ Sunday Adelaja

If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Im happy to sit and be an ear to listen when the world gets wild but Id much prefer to watch the ways your eyes in sparkle in the midst of convincing me why you love the things you do. It gives me hope that someone else out there feels everything with this much depth and has the willingness to create a beautiful life from it.

~ Nikki Rowe

Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality.

~ Dara Reidyr

It's not my fault you have the attention span of a gnat, capable of only thumbing through the crap on Facebook, instead of reading something of worth that can change your life. No, I'm not talking about Oprah's or Ellen's book either.

~ Dara Reidyr

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see.

~ Nikki Rowe

You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

~ Susan Griffin

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

~ Nikki Rowe

I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

~ Lorii Myers

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 buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.

~ Tim Kreider