Quotes About Clarity

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Your head is a lit chamber.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

You see, I am good at filling in blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

L'esprit de l'escalier [staircase wit].

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

The truth. I don't even know what that is anymore. Be patient. Pray about it, and listen to God. He'll help you figure it out.

Low tide exposed the good and the bad, she supposed.

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

The roses tremble; oh, the sunflower's eye Is opened wide in sad expectancy. Westward and back the circling swallows fly, The rooks' battalions dwindle near the hill. That low pulsation in the east is war: No bell now breaks the evening's silent dream. The bloodless clarity of evening's sky Betrays no whisper of the battle-scream.

There's nothing to get. It's the law. Skye's hold on her temper slipped. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

I often half wonder why it is that life, or mine at least, seems less to change from day to day than to be solved like an equation.

When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.

when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything

Can you be more clear?" No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.

You cannot understand any individual passage in Revelation unless you understand the book as a whole, but you cannot understand the hook as a whole unless you understand its individual passages.

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

Mindfulness Makes the Mystery Meaningful

Many people are so busy just doing life, getting by day to day, that they lose touch with the deeper purpose and meaning of life itself. They wander aimlessly from day to day and, as days turn into years, on the final day of their journey here, they look back and think, "That's it? Where was the juice and sweetness and meaning of being here?" Without a vision, our life's journey can seem meaningless.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind Up someplace else. —YOGI BERRA