Quotes About Clarity

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

When you lay down your life for what you are after you've died, you're clean.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.