Quotes About Clarity

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.

and didn't know her own mind, but

open your eyes for us Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's not too exciting

sank, at the realization of what had really

we break up over this? I don't think

You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can't remember that I've ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

It helps to know where you are going before you set out.

You know your problem?" I snap at Shark. "You use too many metaphors. Ants, fish, and rabbits, all in the same breath. That's an abuse of the language." Shark smiles. "I never

Some things in this world should be unacceptable no matter what. Sometimes you shouldn't allow people to grey your vision, to make you stop seeing an atrocity in simple black and white terms.

I hoped the writing would help me get things straight in my head, especially with regards to Kurda, but I was just as confused by the end as I'd been at the beginning. No matter how I looked at it, I couldn't help feeling that Kurda had been both a hero and a villain. Things would be simpler if he was one or the other, but I couldn't pigeonhole him. It was just too complicated.

I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

How do you feel? Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.

I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.

You're old enough to know that everybody except very crazy people and very stupid people suspect themselves now and then – or whenever they happen to think about it – of not being exactly sane. ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XIX

No reason to join a fight until you know what side you're on.

I see', said Smee, still not seeing.

We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool.

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was not any one force, nothing independent and external- it wasn't danger to herself or the constant calamity of other people and their problems. It was internal: it was subjective: it was not knowing.