Quotes About Clarity

Most of the time, she didn't think about them at all. Yet she had her quiet days, her pensive ones, those days when she dug through her memories, trying to find the truth at the bottom of them. As if the truth were a jewel you could unearth and hold in your hand, as if the truth wasn't more like something you'd find under a rock, gray and faceless and squirming away from the light.

Sometimes there were lots of explanations for why something had happened; sometimes there was no explanation at all.

At the beginning of the meeting, the meeting leader spells out the goals. At the end, the participants go back through the agenda and review assignments to be clear on what needs to happen.

Everything felt wrong, lopsided. I knew from the weird fuzzy humming inside my head.

Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

And that's when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do.

The viola da gamba sonatas, the same recording he was listening to now. Vittorio Ghielmi on gamba and Lorenzo Ghielmi on the fortepiano. He loved this recording for its clarity, and for its combination of melancholy and high spirits.

Bide your time, until things begin to make sense

NEVER LIE TO SOMEONE WHO IS LIKELY TO SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU.

RULE 3: PEOPLE SO OFTEN DON'T SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.

Why Buzz is called Buzz? It's simple: [redacted text]

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.

I want to hold you and shelter you, but I don't want to dim your light, angel. Do you understand the difference?

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.

But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.

That's Chinese, not Japanese

Ah, Christ, this is the place with the messed-up sizes, isn't it? Like, 'grande' instead of 'large?' He stretched it out all stupid and fake-French, and Christina and I shared a look. "Why can't you just call it a large?" he asked. "You could except grande is a medium." Christina said, "Venti is large." "Venti. Right. For the love of God, can't I order in plain English?

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

OH THAT I COULD GO TO THE SKY WHERE I MIGHT FIND A CLEAR KNOWING.

But at that moment, Danny decided not to think about it — or anything else

You are an epiphany.

There is great hazard in assuming one knows what 'It' is. The more you try to identify 'It' the more one confuses the issue. Beware of those who say they've bottled 'It' and sell so-called 'It'. 'It' is not for sale.