Quotes About Clarity

We can't get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Know what you desire, but, more importantly, why you desire it. That why was where the trick lay, I realized. Why was a land of trapdoors and hidden places, trees and rocks that looked like one thing, but were actually another.

In terms of power, beauty is like glass, isn't it? Shining, but transparent and easily marred.

I learned something about truth—that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

And right then I learn something very simple and fundamental about love. That it is there or it is not there. That some of our biggest troubles probably come when we try to convince ourselves it is there when it isn't, or that it isn't there when it is.

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly

Never ask questions you don't want the answer to.

Listen to what the sky is telling you.

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

There's nothing like the gift of understanding.

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?

Simplicity is efficient.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something.

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

I write because I want to inspire people and help them live a sorted life

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

By the river of forgetfulness, I found honesty.

The burden of information often makes us blind wisdom opens our eyes.

Education enlightens our minds to see the world with new lights.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.