Quotes About Clarity

Fear tends to come from ignorance.

Depois que descobri o que estava me incomodando, a maior parte do meu mal-estar desapareceu. O medo costuma provir da ignorância. Uma vez que eu soube qual era o problema, ele se tornou apenas um problema, nada a temer.

Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear. Seeing things is a part of being a namer.

It's not a path, but it helps choose a path. It's the simplest way, but it is not easy to see. Honestly, you people sound like drunk cartographers.

When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you all sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorned, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness.

That means if you don't listen to me, you'll jump to your own conclusions and be dead wrong. Dead and wrong.

If you honestly couldn't tell that she was interested in you, you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women. You may want to consider the priesthood.

knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed

What makes this a good place?" He looked out over the water for a long time before he answered. "It is an edge," he said at last. "It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.

You people are easily confused by the look of things.

Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Goodness boy, you're like a clear pool. I can see ten feet through you, and you're barely three feet deep.

I am telling you three times.

I do not understand this man," he said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Qué siente uno cuando sabe adónde va?

There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was so clear and buoyant that he asked himself why he wanted to do it at all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil. And he smiled as he said it and was content. He looked quite innocent, like any happy person.

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

Encontrar el camino no era difícil, lo difícil era luchar contra el recuerdo de la pesadilla claustrofóbica, que avanzaba en su interior, como una marea… Pero tenía valor; es decir, luchaba contra el miedo de no saber, contra el temor de la incertidumbre, y su lucha era efectiva porque sabía que no podía escoger.

Senin fark?na varmas? için yanl?? çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç fark?na varmas?n daha iyi.

Se había esfumado el resto de temor, desvanecido el desaliento y la sombría preocupación que le habían atormentado como a un viejo senil y tembloroso, evaporado la niebla de tristes presagios en la que se había movido a tientas durante semanas. Ahora se encontraba en terreno conocido y se sentía capaz de afrontar cualquier reto.

Perfectly stay in the natural flow, There is no other concentration. Perfectly realize the natural state, There is no other wisdom.

I also made my bed every day, fixed my hair, applied my makeup, and washed the dishes. The result of being faithful in these small things was the restoration of my sense of worth and dignity. And proper placement restores order to one's surroundings, which in turn restores order to some of the brain's clutter.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth