Quotes About Clarity

The world Michael Laski had constructed for himself was one of labyrinthine intricacy and immaculate clarity, a world made meaningful not only by high purpose but by external and internal threats, intrigues and apparatus, an immutably ordered world in which things mattered.

when she drank she did not dream.

On this score, for-profit managers have it easier. Market prices give them a clear yardstick against which to measure the value they create. Nonprofit managers face the same task, creating value, but without the clarity of that yardstick.

Within the first twenty years of our lives, before we are really adult, we make choices motivated by insecurity, fear, and other people's expectations; certinly not guided by clarity and wisdom. We plod along for years living with the wrong career or spousal choice, in a location we did not choose and perhaps do not like, and much more. One day we wake up restless and confused, and acknowledge that we have no agenda of our own, and that we have been living someone else's passion, their dream.

I quess when you bottle things up inside you, misunderstandings pile up.

What would you say you've taken away from all this? ... That running away solves nothing? That my desperate need for a man to fill my life, to make me feel whole, blinded me to what's important? ...

If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.

That was the way to start, he knew: with unsureness. Only when the mind cracked open its own worldly certainties could a glimpse of light appear.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

Garden work clears the mind.

No one sees clearly during a war. History gives perspective

The reader wants to be immersed in a story, not drowned in words

La razón es el perfecto equilibrio de todas las facultades; fuera de ella, todo es insania, insania y nada más que insania.

A razão é o perfeito equilíbrio de todas as faculdades; fora daí insânia, insânia e só insânia.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?