Quotes About Clarity

Love was the thing that tore you apart; it made you believe the lies you were told, obvious as they might be. It was nearly impossible to see your own fate while it was happening to you. It was only after, when what's done had been done, that one's vision cleared.

Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for the life of them they can't understand why they didn't spot the situation as it was happening.

Know what you want, and be sure of it, for regret gives birth to more regret and nothing more.

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.

Why can't people say what they mean at the time?

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

It helped to write things down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you didn't know you had.

Hard times make for simple minds

I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud

You're better than this," Franny said. "Am I? I see things I can't change, Franny. When I drink I stop the visions. It was in pieces but it's coming together in one picture. And lately, what I've been seeing is an accident. A bad one. And soon.

It was so much easier to see another person's future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.

When men were interested, they had a faraway look, as if they were trying to figure out their attraction. Was it a dream, or was it real? Did they want a woman, body and soul, or was it only the body that appealed to them? Sometimes it took them a while to figure it out, sometimes only minutes.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

Sometimes walking away is the bravest thing you can do. When you get there, you'll know where you are.

The story is always about searching for the truth, no matter what it might bring. Even when nothing was what it appeared to be, when everything hidden, there was a center not even I could run from: who I truly was, what I felt, what I was deep inside.

Just because we don't know it or understand it doesn't mean there's not a reason.

Neki ljudi znaju to?an trenutak kad su sve izgubili. Mogu se vratiti u prošlost i vidjeti to jasno kao na dlanu, ali ni za živu glavu ne mogu shvatiti zašto to nisu primijetili dok se doga?alo.

As if only he and the blind man could see what the rest of them could not.

Where are you headed, George?" she asked him. He shouted something unintelligible into the wind. "Have you eaten yet?" she

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

empathic and open, understanding and understandable, honest and available, helpful and loving, feeling, transparent, clear

In quel momento la nostra dolcezza reciproca era senza nubi, senza strategie, e i nostri conflitti sembravano irreali. Si era aperto un cancello, molto probabilmente, ma noi non lo varcammo. (La dama spagnola)

She doesn't mistake that for reality, and neither does she mistake anything else for reality, and this is how she knows that she is sane. Meneseteung