Quotes About Clarity

Everything but me seemed utterly certain of itself. The sky didn't wonder where it was.

You're clear that you don't want to act on your crush, so trust that clarity and be grateful that you have it.

Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.O

Of course, heroin could be had there too, I thought. But the thing was, I didn't want it. Maybe I never really had. I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close.O

We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright--to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.

Heroin had made me dumb and distant from myself. A thought would form and then evaporate. I could not quite get ahold of my mind, even when I wasn't high.

When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first.

It is, I guess, exactly what you're stuck with if you can't get some perspective on this matter, sweet pea.

just close your eyes and remember everything you already know.

I can't help but quote the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, who quite wisely said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

It's a useful way to see what's there. A lot of times, it isn't much.

She looked at her parents, clear-eyed and astonished, like she understood exactly who she was for the very first time. A prisoner of her own body.

You're clear you don't want to act on your crush, so trust that clarity and be grateful that you have it. My inbox is jammed with emails from people who are not so clear. They're tortured by indecision and guilt and lust. They love X but want to fuck Z....Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.

Being seen through, with wisdom and detachment. And being found, not to have a big booger hanging out of his nose, but to be of some mysterious value.

Any reader unable to distinguish between the historical and fictional elements of the plot is urged to seek professional help as quickly as possible.

DEDICATION "To The Creator, who gives us the Light by which we more clearly see the Darkness…

Girls never tell you anything straight out anyway. You have to interpolate and extrapolate their responses to figure out what's on their mind.

What you say matters, not the language

É sempre bom lembrar que um copo vazio está cheio de ar.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

With few words one can speak the truth.

And don't talk too fast — you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.

If something goes without saying, let it.