#insight

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. ↗

— Patti Smith

#insight #intelligent #kind #like #people

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. ↗

— Tony Snow

#believe #cocky #come #confers #enough

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art-criticism #critics #insight #knowledge #music-criticism

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

— R. Scott Bakker

#insight #beauty

Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn't look past the obvious and on the other side of busy. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers

It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#insight #change

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#paul-david-tripp #people #principles #redeemer #redemption

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy. ↗

— Elle Casey

#change

Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers

Age is a timeless beauty. At each mile in my life journey, I am a distinctive blend of what I've experienced and the unique talents I was given to share with others. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers