Insightful Quotes

If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing.

~ Will Adolphy

The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Before I do anything I feel that I have a choice, and that influences what I do; but afterwards, when the thing is done, I believe it was inevitable from all eternity.''What do you deduce from that?''Why merely the futility of regret. It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

~ Susane Colasanti

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

~ Steven Tyler

- Paddle Your Own CanoeVoyager upon life's sea,To yourself be true,And whatever your lot may be,Paddle your own canoe.Never, though the winds may rave,Falter or look back;But upon the darkest waveLeave a shining track.Paddle your own canoe.Nobly dare the wildest storm,Stem the hardest gale,Brave of heart and strong of armYou will never fail.When the world is cold and dark,Keep your aim in view;And toward the beacon work,Paddle your own canoe. .....Would you crush the giant wrong,In the world's free fight?With a spirit brave and strong,Battle for the right.And to break the chains that bindThe many to the fewTo enfranchise slavish mind,-Paddle your own canoe.Nothing great is lightly won,Nothing won is lost,Every good deed, nobly done,Will repay the cost.Leave to Heaven, in humble trust,All you will to do:But if succeed, you mustPaddle your own canoe.

~ Sarah Knowles Bolton

Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

~ Deb Caletti

The very best thing about landing in that grave? Perspective.So I peer through this morning's prism: a science test looming in second period, an a-hole of a coach who probably could have used more childhood therapy than I got, and a tell-tale tampon under my foot.I consider the clawed tiger on the bed, the one wearing the zebra-printed sports bra - the same tiger that every Sunday transforms into the girl who voluntarily walks next door to help sort Miss Effie's medicine into her days-of-the-week pill container. The one who pretended her ankle hurt one day last week so the backup settler on her volleyball team would get to play on her birthday.

~ Julia Heaberlin

Everyone’s perception is different, we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.

~ Fisher Amelie

The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.

~ Michael Dwinnell

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

~ Emily Whitman

A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.

~ Rhys Bowen

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.

~ Agatha Christie

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

~ Samantha Leahy

You only lose what you cling to.

~ Gautama Buddha

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

~ Preston Morgan

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

~ Jay Samit

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

~ Bilal Hussain

Some blind faithfully, some see.

~ T.f. Hodge

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

~ Anne Lamott

Chance favors the connected mind.

~ Steven Johnson

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

~ Steven Johnson

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.

~ Daniel Handler

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

~ Billy Kazee

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...

~ Ishmael Beah

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

~ Peter Høeg

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

~ Sarah Dessen

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

~ Ann Packer

An American Family Sampler is a book any reader will find insightful, thoroughly researched, and fun to read. Robert Frump, author, award winning journalist, business leader

~ Donald Mazzella

Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.

~ Mike Sasso

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

~ Ruth Ozeki

BAIT GOATThere is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

~ Kay Ryan

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none.

~ Unknown Author 692

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people.

~ Suzanne Collins

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. Yes, the differences between male and female are biological, but if you look at biology as a matter of percentage, there aren't a whole lot of things that are different. Race is different purely as a social construct, not as an inherent difference. And religion - whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

~ David Levithan

I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.

~ Kent Ian N. Cny

I'm not here only just for a visit, but I'm here cuz' i knew I'm HOME.

~ Kent Ian N. Cny

Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.

~ Nicholas Sparks