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Quotes About Clearing

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.
~ Mary Everest Boole
No matter how much preparation time you get, start planning what you hope to accomplish by specific milestones. Even a few hours of preentry planning can go a long way. Begin by thinking about your first day in the new job. What do you want to do by the end of that day? Then move to the first week. Then focus on the end of the first month, the second month, and finally the three-month mark. These plans will be sketchy, but the simple act of beginning to plan will help clear your head.
~ Unknown
Life, death, change, they happened most at the edge of things: where forest meets clearing, air meets water.
~ Nicola Griffith
I was amazed that the roar of traffic had stopped farther over toward Denfert-Rochereau, as if the feeling of absence and emptiness that Jansen left was spreading in concentric circles and Paris was gradually clearing out.
~ Patrick Modiano
And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”
~ Genesis 20:16
You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
~ Leviticus 26:10
He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
~ Isaiah 10:34