Quotes About Clarity

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

The truth will set you free, and then you shall be free indeed.

The hero's journey requires us to find our uniqueness. We simply cannot do that without enough solitude to find out who we are. Most of us need some time alone every day just to stay clear.

Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.

How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.

Being alone gave me a chance to process what my senses took in without having to factor in other people's opinions.

everything else fell away,

Why did you not tell me this earlier?" "Because you never asked. I was waiting to be questioned, but apparently your aversion to me

It said if you were nervous about committing yourself to marriage and it was because you doubted yourself and whether you would make a good partner, then that was only natural and you should go ahead. It also said that if you doubted that the other person was right for you, then you should stop it.

However, the truth of the matter is that just because you love someone it doesn't mean that they're right for you.

It is a very simple matter," continued Colonel Bradford, "to live simply in this highly complex world. Let the world be complex but let your diet, and all matters pertaining to your mental and physical wellbeing be simple.

I never needed eyes to see — never. I simply needed vision and belief.

He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, "That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.

Listen to your inner voice... for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you... Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.

I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed." "Well, I mean it.

You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want." "You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

Keep your expectations simple and you almost always get what you want,

Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.

And death is simple. Life is what's complicated

Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

The dog's agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. "I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.