Quotes About Clarity

La mente umana, anche una mente minuscola, aborrisce l'ambiguità

I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I'd just missed it.

Being sober isn't just about not using. Being sober is about the joy a life of clarity and living by spiritual principles can bring. There is nothing greater than that. Forget drugs. Forget needles. Forget everything. We are living to experience the undiluted amazement of life on life's terms.

I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I'd just missed it. They all seemed to know exactly what they were doing while I didn't have a clue. That is, until I found drugs and alcohol. Then it was like my world suddenly went from black-and-white to Technicolor.

No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I'm not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I've done.

La paura finisce dove comincia la verità.

Le cose, una volta pensate, che bisogno c'è di dirle?

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Bauhaus design at its best demonstrates that the ordinary and the everyday, when addressed with discernment and tastefulness, have a candor and clarity that calm the insides.

What counted was focus, paring down: the form of the Parthenon as opposed to all the ornament and complexities of wedding-cake architecture.

Remember, the point of doing this [personality inquiry] is not to pigeonhole yourself with a four-letter type but to get clear on important aspects of your makeup--your personal blueprint. Use this inquiry as a mirror to see yourself more clearly, Don't accept the results as truth. Use them to find clues,

Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.

He tells not a half truth, but a truth and a half

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Never choose a man while under the influence of chemicals that mess with your brain, my friends. Never.

So it's a shame. They wasted precious time tiptoeing around each other when clearly all that was required was a good heart-to-heart.

The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves. By keeping it foggy they save themselves the trouble of spelling out their beliefs and recommendations for the future. For academics, of all people, this is a disreputable way of going about business, but one that has many uses. Obscurantism spared the theorists who emerged from the grave of Marxism the pain of testing dearly held beliefs and prejudices

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves.

Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn