Quotes About Clarity

Jesus did not have the time nor the desire to scatter himself on those who wanted to make their own terms of discipleship.

Rather than speaking the truth for the right reasons we may want to make our point defend our position or put the other person down. The truth be told but it should be done at the right time for the right reasons and with the right attitude.

We may feel good about our words our intentions and our motivation may be pure but our message probably will be lost or misunderstood if we overlook how others are going to perceive what we say.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

La gente siempre me busca para que interprete sus sueños nocturnos. Si interpretasen también sus sueños de vigilia habría menos confusión en sus sueños nocturnos y serían capaces de entenderlos.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because they do not know what they know.

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

He experienced one of those moments of simultaneous confusion and clarity that belong to the drunk and the desperate.

Kairos moment. An' it means," and from somewhere in his soused brain he dredged up words of surprising clarity, "the telling moment. The special moment. The supreme moment.

It was difficult for him to decide whether she was sincere, or performing her own character; her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

how happy I should feel if I could succeed in bringing a little light into all this murky ugliness. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

Friends of friends had offered everything from management roles in the close protection industry to business partnerships, but the itch to detect, solve, and reimpose order on the moral universe could not be extinguished in him. He doubted it ever would be.

We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things we do not yearn to see Around us: and what see we glancing back? Christina Rossetti Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets

The corners of his mouth twitched, but as Robin didn't see him smiling, he felt no compulsion to explain.