Quotes About Clarity

Oh, dear. Sometimes it takes a very long while to figure things out.

Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.

To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment

One wouldn't have noticed it before, but now it was obvious. It was as though Ambrose had opened an inlet to something previously invisible, and Alma could finally see a truth she would otherwise have been blind to forever.

To be honest, I didn't understand what I was doing at college, aside from fulfilling a destiny whose purpose nobody had bothered explaining to me.

the Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Of course God already knows what I need. The question is - do I know?

why is a hard question to answer in any language

I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from our realities as possible, and that sometimes it can take years of effort to reach such a point of sober discernment.

Not merely alive, but outfitted with a mind that was functioning at the uppermost limits of its capacity—a mind that was seeing everything, and understanding everything, as though watching it all from the highest imaginable ridge.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

no vemos nuestro reflejo en el agua en movimiento, sino en el agua quieta.

insisted, "until the point is inarguable.

Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad».

I don't know what I think until I write about it (Joan Didion).

Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

Just say what you want to say, then, and say it with all your heart.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.

He pulled back, staring at her in the dim carriage, his brows still knit. Megs? Oh, right. She still hadn't told him. Well, it was his own fault; his mouth was simply delicious. I love you, she said, speaking clearly so that there might be no confusion.