Insight Quotes

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

~ Amit Abraham

Not to understand is profound, to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside, to understand is to be on the outside.

~ Zhuangzi

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best; right? So, meanwhile why are so many people faking it? Security? Fear of loneliness? Fears of independence? Fears of being self ? Or just the idea that you can make someone change? Regardless of the justifications you give & treat yourself to... , I hope all of you - new year -new me types strive for self care , honest and pure friendships and relationships based of love- and not based off the fake realities of your mind. These delusions of what you hope for instead of what's there, where you and your puppet show master focus more on everyone else and less on self. To change the world you must start within. But you must first BE HONEST with yourself. My new year started a few months ago-- and it was the best choice I ever made- and I hope your recreations are progressive and successful in THE NEW YEAR

~ Tiffany Luard

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

~ Germany Kent

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I see the life with your sight,O the love; you're my light.

~ Debasish Mridha

People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you think you can't, you're wrong and right

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

True understanding lies beyond the desert

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You are what you believe

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Know the laws before you break them

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Please others and you please yourself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Calm is the best revenge

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society.

~ E. Nesbit

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

~ Otsuichi

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

~ Justine Winter

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

~ Michel Faber

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

~ Margaret Mead

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason. He saw himself highly esteemed by this girl who was so proud, and never bestowed unrestricted praise; by this line of reasoning he arrived at a gratification of his self-esteem.

~ Stendhal

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

~ Valerie Tarico