Quotes About Clarity

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides," Henri Frédéric Amiel

It's not always easy to see which end is up.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I will trust you until you give me a reason not to. Do I make myself clear?" And though my stomach tightens at the thought of all those Nickel Bay Bucks in my care, I meet his gaze and answer, "Crystal." "Good.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.

it all fell into place and I simply knew, as one knows that fire is hot and sleep is sweet. It was just that sudden, that elemental, and it occurred to me then that the truth is precisely that--elemental. It is the essence of itself; it cannot be argued or winnowed down to something less than what it is.

Yo no he dicho eso. Tiene usted el don de sacar el peor significado posible de mis palabras. Nicholas Brisbane

He'd learned many years ago that the loud and overemotional meant loud and overemotional, not right.

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.

He's going for wisdom but the real wisdom is knowing there sometimes isn't any.

There's a Reasonable Explanation' is definitely a place you can go, a destination.

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.

The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you.