Quotes About Clarity

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect." He

get it. How did you not know?

have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to

I can't entirely explain why, but in that moment my life felt like a better place than it had been for as long as I could remember.

I think we all more or less know where we stand with people, whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not.

There's so much I see every day and don't really understand and I just don't stop to think about the fact that I don't really understand.

does it seem to you like she's right around here somewhere?" I watched his forehead furrow. I think he knew what I was asking. That I was talking about some kind of sixth sense knowing. Which made my question nearly impossible to answer.

The 'J' is for 'Jackie,' " he said. "But why don't you just call her 'Mom'?" "Oh. So I don't get her mixed up with my other mom. P-Mom. The 'P' is for 'Paula.

Let me go!" Seth shot out. "Tell me what's going on." "Not with you holding me prisoner." "I'm not holding you prisoner. I'm trying to hold you. I'm trying to put my arms around you and give you a hug, but you're fighting so hard you can't tell.

People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective.

Love explains a lot.

What do you think of them?" "They're fine. Why ask them to be shorter?

Whether they admit it to you, whether they admit it to themselves, people know where they stand with each other. Virginia

The reason people are unhappy is because they're so sure they know what they want. And then it makes them unhappy when they don't get it. I personally think people would be happier if they weren't so sure they knew the difference between a good thing and a bad thing.

Without hesitation. Without creating a gap that doubt can wedge its way into, to create an even greater hesitation.

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why. —Thurber

People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective. Sometimes you need to use somebody else like a mirror. Let them reflect back to you the way the world really is.

Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won't hurt them. But they're not scared for no reason. They're just not scared for the reason they think they are.

soon I stopped talking. It felt good to stop. Even though I know I said it was very important, what I was saying. But after a minute it didn't seem so important anymore, and that was a relief.

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

Biblical narratives provide the basic set of stories containing the important Christian beliefs, and children receive a great gift when we tell them Bible stories with clarity and drama. They also need to hear the stories of their particular faith tradition.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

He quirked an eyebrow briefly, slightly, in such a way that no one afterwards might be able to safely accuse him of having done it. Sei knew the look. Names are meaningless, plosives and breath, but those who liked the slope of her waist often made much of hers, which denoted purity, clarity—as though it had any more in the way of depth than others. They wondered, all of them, if she really was pure, as pure as her name announced her to be, all white banners and hymeneal grace.