Quotes About Clarity

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears.

By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.

the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams

of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

I had nothing to offer anybody except for my own confusion

Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

the point being that we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know that everything is really FINE...

Sembra che io abbia una costituzione che non regge l'alcol e ancor di meno l'idiozia e l'incoerenza.

There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed... though as I say comparisons _are_ odious, but what we're saying now is true.

I have nothing to offer anybody expect my own confusion.

Findes der en bestemt og tydelig lære der kan gives alle levende væsener?" var det spørgsmål man sikkert stillede den snehvide Dipankara med de buskede øjenbryn, og hans svar var diamantens brølende stilhed.

By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.

Men lad bevidstheden være klar over at selvom kødet er plaget, er tilværelsens omstændigheder temmelig vidunderlige.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

nothing could disturb this wise calm, this sanity of soul

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

But it was that beautiful cut of clouds I could always see above the little S.P. alley, puffs floating by from Oakland or the Gate of Marin to the north or San Jose south, the clarity of Cal to break your heart. It was the fantastic drowse and drum hum of lum mum afternoon nathin' to do, ole Frisco with end of land sadness

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

I wasn't elected to sugar coat things.I wasn't elected to tell stories and twist the stories around to the public.

I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.