#sight

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. ↗

— Steve Martin

#inspirational #thoughtful #change

When we shift from trying to figure it out to feeling our way, insight arrives. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

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

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever. ↗

— Karen McQuestion

#life-lessons #change

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.         To date, I had made three. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#corcitura #danger #eric-bradburry #hindsight #hybrid-vampires

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#analysis #character #darkness #insight #intuition

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection . . . has no purpose in mind'. I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight. ↗

— Susan J. Blackmore

#design #foresight #memetics #design

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place. ↗

— Yusef Lateef

#body #higher #hold #looks #mind

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#cannot #custom #insight #moralist #must

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear! ↗

— Michael McKean

#drop #fun #hear #insanely #loud

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#authorized #baptize #god #grievous #him