Quotes About Clarity

el satori es una experiencia súbita y se lo describe a menudo como un «vuelco» de la mente

The ultimate act that enlightens involves no action at all.

By the end of that first day, what I'd made was a big mess. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, that I was well on my way.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

The language that reveals also obscures.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity

This habit of using words which have no definite meaning is very convenient to writers, but very much the reverse for readers. [What is Darwinism (New York, 1874), p. 21]

Romanists argue that such is the obscurity of the Scriptures, that not only the people, but the Church itself needs the aid of tradition in order to their being properly understood. But if the Bible, a comparatively plain book, in one probable volume, needs to be thus explained, what is to explain the hundreds of folios in which these traditions are recorded? Surely a guide to the interpretation of the latter must be far more needed than for the Scriptures.

To define, however, is simply to bound, to separate, or distinguish; so that the thing defined may be discriminated from all other things.

Time has a purpose. The meaning of a sentence becomes clear when we put a period at the end of it. The same applies to life. When

She had students read their compositions aloud so that everyone could hear how good writing had three Cs: clarity, coherence, and cadence.

occurred to Nelle. I am satisfied

my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!