Quotes About Clarity

Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

Once you learn how to work with the I Ching, there will be no need to hopelessly wonder whether or not you should consider a relationship with someone, start a particular business, move to a particular neighborhood, or go to a particular place on vacation, or take a particular action.

Do not allow your brain to infect your mind with visions of ill health, problems, unhappiness, and conflict. You are in charge. Do not succumb to loading your brain with garbage.

We've been slaves to what's stored in our brain for so long that it takes a herculean effort to clear it out. But it is essential for a good life that you do.

Realist ist heute, wer auf dem Boden der Tatsachen steht - ein Boden, der in den Plänen dieser gleichen Realisten bereits verseucht ist.

Wisdom does not always speak Latin.

Air - the element of clarity of thought, of inspiration, insight, and fresh starts. He smiled a little, and as the scene began to fade, he let it go easily. Because he knew that with Air, there would always be something new to come, to challenge and inspire him.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

Are you going to win every argument? He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. Only the important ones.

Baby you're reading the situation completely wrong. I know you don't need saving. I do. I need you to save me.

when you don't know what to do, stand still.

I love you, Mikhail, all of you, even the beast in you. I don't know why I became so confused. You aren't evil. I can see so clearly inside of you." Sleep, little one, in my arms where you belong. Mikhail drew up the quilt, wrapped protective arms around her, and sent them both to sleep.

You may as well have written your name in the sky with your challenge, Gregori." "I want the vampire to be very clear about who I am, whom he has chosen for his enemy.

Humanity is not condemned to wander forever in an epistemological fog, knowing only the surface appearance of things but never their true nature.

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

people never change. What you think you see is what you see. See?

Leave the thought, it will surface when it's ready

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Orwell was one of those upon whom nothing was lost. (This included, as Orwell himself said: "the power of facing unpleasant facts"). By declining to lie, even as far as possible to himself, and by his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage..

Some statements are too blunt for everyday, consensual discourse. In national "debate," it is the smoother pebbles that are customarily gathered from the stream, and used as projectiles. They leave less of a scar, even when they hit. Occasionally, however, a single hard-edged remark will inflict a deep and jagged wound, a gash so ugly that it must be cauterized at once. In