Quotes About Clarity

Maybe I should have explained matters better when I had him on the phone, but where's the fun in that?

already knew the ending, I didn't feel

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

So, get still and listen to the soul. What do you want?

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

Sometimes, what people choose to write down on paper is more important than what they say." Caleb didn't know what Sarah meant. But I knew. I wrote in my journal every night. And when I read what I had written, I could see myself there, clearer than when I looked in the mirror. I could see all of us: Papa, who couldn't always say the things he felt; Caleb, who said everything; and Sarah, who didn't know that she had changed us all.

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.

Sometimes you think you know more than you really do—people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Didn't say it was easy. Said it was simple. Some of the simplest things aren't easy at all.

Truth doesn't stay hidden. Neither do secrets. One day, to a praying heart, they disclose themselves.

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.

And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are.

All I could do was think. You try doing nothing but thinking for a few months. It's a very useful exercise for shaking some of the chaff out of your life.

The most consistent road to unhappiness that I know comes from turning a blind eye to reality. We do this when we wish potato chips weren't fattening and eat them anyway put off doing the bills just one more day live an unhealthy lifestyle, fail to heed warnings on the label (or don't even read the label), or focus on our partner's shortcomings and spend time trying to talk him into doing things our way.

I was both fed up with explaining and desperately craving an explanation.

Be brave. Write plainly.

The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

When I say I know something, I'm right 95% of the time; when I say I DON'T know something, I'm right 100% of the time!

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

The more specific your questions the better. If you feel that you can't really continue the conversation without asking questions, you need to ask specific questions.