Quotes About Clarity

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.

In order to get over a problem it helps to look at it. You can't climb a mountain that you pretend isn't there.

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view.

Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn't always the same as achievement.

Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

When things go dark, we can't see what we have. That doesn't mean that we don't have those things. Those things remain, right in front of us. All we need is to light a candle, or ignite some hope, and we can see that what we thought was lost was merely hidden.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.

When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

40 pieces of helpful advice: No. 31 - Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.

No is a good word. It keeps you sane. In an age of overload, no is really yes. It is yes to having the space you need to live.

Aim to have less stuff to do.

To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind. She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

The art of swimming...was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.

Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

I was better. I was better. But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realized I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realized I was still very ill indeed.

A veces los arrepentimientos no tienen ninguna base. Algunas veces son simplemente fake news

Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don't need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything.

A Camus quote came to her, right in the middle of it. I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.