Quotes About Clarity

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one's own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.

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

It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.

Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.

Is she happy? She doesn't understand. She has never considered it. It is possible to be so entirely happy you never ask the question. She is a full glass submerged in water. Neither nor both full and empty. The inquiry, though kind, has no meaning for her.

IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.

Oh, please, do try to explain it to them. We'll be here for ninety years, and at the end of it they'll be quite certain you've told them that Mohammed is a turtle with an excellent singing voice. May you have better luck than I!

Accuracy is next to godliness.

But the birch tree reminded me of how large the world was and how unimportant was my place in it. It became a reminder: to let things be what they were, to live unsentimentally. To pare away the unnecessary neuroses, the compulsion to be at the center of every thought; to look at the world without the intervening lens of self.

We're so worried about the legal details of crossing doctrinal t's and dotting sociopolitical i's that we miss the big picture. The love picture. The one thing Jesus was really clear about: LOVE. If we could just get that one thing down, I believe the details would take care of themselves.

Copyediting is helping the words survive the misconceptions of their authors.

looked straight at her. 'Donna, I think Edna

There are things I want in life - things I need, things I mean to do,' Olivia went on. 'I just don't know what they are.

I can see clearly now, my brain is gone. Lucy

People would rather hold on to their illusions than face the truth." "It seems to me that people have to know their own truth before they can embrace someone else's," I philosophized. Mark elaborated, "The average public is socially engineered to the point where they no longer think to look within.

Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance,

Don't go to the hardware store for bread.

What is it you really want?" Emily said. "Because if what you want is the big career, then you need to stick with that—and stop torturing the person who can't or won't follow. I speak from some experience on that.

Rem tene, verba sequntur (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.