Quotes About Clarity

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

The Anglo-Saxons had a great word for the right word, the word that you need right now, when another one simply would not do. That word is wordriht.

If your everyday conversation is sloppy and scattered, a highly disciplined writing voice will come off like some kind of schizophrenia.

Justin Taylor, editor of Crossway, cites the example of one writer who wanted to thank "my parents, Jesus and Ayn Rand." See what happens when you leave out the serial comma? But Andy Le Peau, at InterVarsity, points to a different kind of example. Suppose someone were to dedicate his book to "my mother, Ayn Rand, and God"? Now the serial comma creates the idea that Ayn Rand is in apposition to mother, which it presumably wasn't.

We are badly diseased with regard to vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, and what we desperately need is for someone to write an elegant little volume of sane English usage that will make us all whole again.

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the beholders.' " 70. They said, "Call upon your Lord for us to make plain to us what it is. Verily to us all cows are alike, And surely, if Allaah wills, we will be guided." 71. He [Moosa (Moses)] said, "He says, 'It is a cow neither trained to till the soil nor water the fields, sound, having no other colour except bright yellow.' " They said, "Now you have brought the truth.

What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not know the truth.

No existen dudas ni necesidad de explicaciones. Todo se explica a sí mismo en la vivencia de unificación y en su sabor dulce y luminoso.

El estado de Iluminación implica la desaparición de todo filtro en la percepción, tanto del entorno como del sí mismo.

Common sense needs to be more common.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

It has often been said there's so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Are we acting like a couple? Im just trying to get it straight. Cause Im over here convinced that its too early for mistakes.

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

Its like I know what I gotta say, I just dont know how to say it to you.

I think better when Im not sober.

That thing, that moment when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that person is the only person you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away at the same time.

Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough … and then just let go of all the rest.

Although hundreds or thousands of explanations are given, There is only one thing to be understood - Know the one thing that liberates everything - Awareness itself, your true nature.