Quotes About Clarity

do not believe in my truth and I do not believe in your truth. I believe in the truth.

Release what no longer serves you.

Right. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.

Men don't know what they want. Women must show them.

Stifle it,' Longmore told the boy. He needed a clear head to find his way through Sophy's rabbit warren of a mind. He couldn't do that and translate the boy's deranged version of English at the same time.

Amethysts, not emmyfists, you illiterate cow

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can't control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. "They can get bent in the strangest ways." Grandma Augustine says that the only way to straighten out bad words is to keep making good ones until you say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.

Being silent is like emptying the trash. When you stop tossing junk into the void—words,words,words—something important rises to the surface.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained. "They'll be there regardless, so you might as well welcome them because they hold important clues." How many times had I said something similar to my own patients? But here I feel as if I'm hearing this for the first time. Don't judge your feelings; notice them. Use them as your map. Don't be afraid of the truth.

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." What

I'm reminded," he begins, "of a famous cartoon. It's of a prisoner, shaking the bars, desperately trying to get out—but to his right and left, it's open, no bars.

Every day, our patients are opening up questions that we have to think about for ourselves. If they can see themselves more clearly through our reflections, we can see ourselves more clearly through theirs.

Una conversazione implica una specie di collaborazione e, spesso, un atto di perdono. Quando parlo posso sbagliarmi ma, in qualche modo, riesco a spiegarmi. Sulla pagina sono sola. La lingua parlata è una specie di antecamera rispetto a quella scritta, la quale ha una propria logica, ancora più severa, più inafferrabile.

why did you tell me to look on the 'other' table instead of 'that' table?

I don't need liquor to color the world

Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, "Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.

Experience is what you get when you didn't know what you wanted.

Sugar, Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. You need to go far, far away. A few weeks ago, he'd have taken that to mean she didn't want to see his face within a six-hundred-mile radius. Now he knew the truth. He distracted her. He could live with that. Came to see if I can help. I think I know how to make burgers, she said smoothly. But bless your heart. In other words, f*** off and die.

I'm not too chicken, she said. I know exactly what I want. I honestly thought I could do this with you, the whole friends-with-benefits thing. She slowly shook her head, her eyes suspiciously shiny. But as it turns out, I can't. Now with you, Adam. With you, I want it all. (...) It's not that simple for me, he heard himself say. Of course it is. Life is as simple as you make it, Adam. You're born. You live. You die. I don't plan on dying without doing the living part, though.

Listen, she finally said. I might've given you the wrong impression when I...bumped into you with the bear thing. Bumped into me? He couldn't help it, he laughed. You tried to crawl up my body. Which is my point, she said stiffly. My sleep-out adventure isn't going to include crawling up anyone's body. Will it include sleeping? -Amy and Matt

Is it for fuck's sake or for fuck sakes?" she asked the room. "It's a work email, so it has to sound professional.

How am I supposed to make big decisions when I still have to sing the alphabet to myself to alphabetize stuff?

I get that the proof of my wanting isn't as … evident as yours was, but I'm quite certain you could find it if you searched hard enough.

How am I supposed to make big decisions when I still have to sing the alphabet in my head to get to the right letter?