#insight

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#greed #insight #understanding #insight

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#insight

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#horror #house-of-leaves #insightful #insight

Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight. ↗

— Anonymous

#day #insight #lesson #night #succeed

Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say something all insightful or wise or something to try and make the person feel better. But really, sometimes silence is best. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#insightful #silence #insight

I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#insight

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery. ↗

— Craig Thompson

#insightful #longing #insight

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly. ↗

— Keith Ablow

#insight

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself. ↗

— Celia Rees

#philosophy #nature

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

#inspirational #revenge #touching #death