Quotes About Clarity

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Maybe I should stop thinking so much, and start feeling. Maybe thinking is over-rated.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

No one has a patent on the truth. Find yours.

Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

Mirror, mirror, shining bright, bring more clarity to my sight.

realized he wasn't the one

When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.

she just seemed to have been put together more on purpose than other people.

That's the trouble with lies. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight.

Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

knowledge would not necessarily serve them, nor would it make them happy. There was a chance it would instead throw light on visions they did not want to see.

Bengali philosopher, poet and composer Rabindranath Tagore: It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

A female writer cannot afford to feel her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly.

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.

Often, focusing on the words spoken precludes figuring out what sparked a crisis, because the culprits are not words but tone of voice, intonation, and unstated implications and assumptions.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Fear's ploy is to stop us looking at him, or indeed anything else, closely and attentively. When panic strikes it helps to remember that the simple act of paying attention is calming. In fact only attentiveness brings peace.

But those things that apparently cut out life, or seem to conceal or block it, are not nearly so mysterious as they pretend. These 'things' are bound by logic and may be analysed, isolated and destroyed. pg. 3