Quotes About Clarity

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One

Mental Health is dedication to reality at all costs.

And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity. 

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

coisa que não era necessário dizer, mas há leitores tão obtusos, que nada entendem, se se lhes não relata tudo e o resto. Vamos ao resto. 

Deus te livre, leitor, de uma ideia fixa; antes um argueiro, antes uma trave no olho.

God save you, dear reader, from an idée fixe, better a speck, a mote in the eye

Mas vá lá; ou não se há de contar nada, ou se há de dizer tudo.

Dear God! we must explain everything.

O melhor prólogo é o que contém menos coisas, ou o que as diz de um jeito obscuro e truncado.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless.

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said.

Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but he is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through.

Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.