#sigh

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#drowning #foresight #help #i #incredibly

Zane.” His voice was hushed and pensive. “Sometimes I’m not capable of expressing how grateful I am for you.” “What do you mean?” Ty put a hand to his own chest, visibly struggling to find the right words. “For your . . . So few people have ever understood the way I work. In here.” He tapped his chest. “Thank you for . . . your insight. ↗

— Abigail Roux

#zane-garrett #insight

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

— Oswald Chambers

#insightful #insight

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. ↗

— Woody Allen

#philosophy #insight

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#civilization #consequences #environment #foresight #insight

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely. ↗

— James Redfield

#soul #insight

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. ↗

— Jill Bolte Taylor

#validation #insight

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#life

Science is a man made way of understanding what God has already said and done. ↗

— Najen

#science

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#success