Quotes About Clarity

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Wondeful how one loses track of the days up here in the mountains.

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

Everything looked sharp and clear, and the town smelt of the early morning.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

After all if I'm trying to write books without any extra words I might as well stick to it.

Write hard and clear about what hurts

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Write the truest sentence you know.

Start by writing the truest sentence you know

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?

Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.

Cuando Jesús preguntó a los hombres "¿Qué quieren que haga por ustedes?", no fue porque Jesús no lo supiera, sino porque necesitaba que ellos declararan lo que querían que Él hiciera por ellos.

When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

Trust and truth are intimate companions, but we must also acknowledge that there are many kinds of truth. What are the useful truths, for us as individuals and as couples, in light of the choices we are likely to make? Some kinds of knowledge bring clarity; others just give us visions to torture ourselves with.

Falling in love, as Francesco Alberoni writes, "rearranges all our priorities, throws the superfluous overboard, projects a glaring light onto what is superficial and instantly discards it.