#Insight

"The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity."

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

"Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented."

"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."

"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outsidethe box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."

"Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."

"They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?"

"I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps."

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."

"My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him."

"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."