Quotes About Clarity

He answers the ones you should've asked, but didn't," she said.

But sometimes there is absolutely nothing like a damn, shit, or hell to get your point across

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment.

We knew what we were against. We just didn't know what we were for.

If we're not going to get married, we need to break up. So…shit or get off the pot, honey." "That was beautiful," murmured Father Bruce as he opened a menu.

It's not you. The stupidest line in the history of lines.

I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.

Then they'd looked at each other, realization

Bryce was a typical man—he didn't know what he needed; he just knew what he liked.

There's something about being near the ocean that puts your life in perspective. It's reassuring, that's what it is.

She wants me to cut through all the sweetness and light in my head," I said, "so I can see the truth." "Which is?" Tommy asked, not turning around. "That nothing is what it seems to be.

How will I know." "You won't until afterwards.

Weten is verschrikkelijk, maar niet weten is nog veel erger

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

Fear is smart until…" He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. "Until what?" He looked back at her. "Until you realize you're afraid of the wrong thing.

She needed Matthew, but not to save her or complete her or reinvent her. Her love for him was the clearest, cleanest, strongest emotion she'd ever felt. It was like opening your eyes or growing up, realizing that you had it in you to love like this. Forever. For all time. Or for all the time you had.

What did she wish? She didn't know. When she thought about it, that was the problem with her life, now and always, she'd never known what to wish for until it was too late.

Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.

Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simple-mindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

for a moment, all bells ring true.

Perhaps partly because of the troubling business of being struggled over, I have come to value highly the privilege of getting away, of being alone. It has seemed to me that my most fruitful periods of work are the times when I have been able to get completely away from what others think, from professional expectations and daily demands, and gain perspective on what I am doing.

the best financial plan has nothing to do with what the markets are doing, nothing to do with what your real estate agent is telling you, nothing to do with the hot stock your brother-in-law told you about. It has everything to do with what's most important to you.