Quotes About Clarity

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. —Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns

Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.

Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing. The sight brings on an oppressive sadness that no car about to hit you or water about to drown you can match. The feeling is truly unbearable.

Por qué tolerar la oscuridad? Todo ya está aquí y está claro si sabemos mirar con la atención debida.

We believe what we see.'...What do you do when you're in the dark?

Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados.

A wise person is one who knows how to make complicated matters simple.

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

We needed philosophical and inspirational guides to make sure we always asked the right questions and found the right answers.

Or as Dieter Rams, head of design at Braun, maintains, "Good design is as little design as possible.

She knows what it means. Oh, wonderfully bright at 6 a.m., yes, wonderfully clear for an hour . But the shorter the days, the longer the nights, the darker the house, the easier it is, the easier it is, the easier it is, to mistake a shadow for the writing on the wall, the sound of overland footsteps for the distant crack of thunder, and the midnight chime of a New Year clock for the bell that tolls the end of the world.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it.

He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany?

The clarity disturbed me. "She

Well, maybe I use the wrong word in English. I mean that for Lamin the future is as certain as the past.

It had to do with emotion. Whatever I was feeling I was able to express very clearly, I could "put it over.

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

A bird is a bird Slavery means slavery A knife is a knife Death remains death

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.