Quotes About Clarity

It's hard to see what's good, what's right, when you're in the middle of it.

The soul sees what the eye cannot

My trouble has always been," Mrs. Channing said, "that I can see both sides of every question." "Trouble? That is a gift, Madame; a very unusual gift." Mrs. Channing rose and prepared to follow her into lunch. "I don't think it's a gift," she said. "If it is, it came from a very wicked fairy.

Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

If it's not a "Hell Yes!" then it's a "Hell No!"...it's that simple.

I know now one must plan one's old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie's life is that she never knew what she wanted at any age—only what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

She had that transparent honesty and purity and serenity that like clear water flooding over the bed of a stream washes away uncleanness, and makes fresh and divinely lovely all that is seen through its own transparency. We see the world through the medium of our own characters, and Marguerite saw and loved all things through her own bright clarity, and enjoyed them enormously.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

You think you know now, don't you? But you have no idea what it was like.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Since clarity suggests simplicityAnd since the simple thing is here inapt,I choose obscurities of tongue and touch,The shadow side of language and the darkHinted in conversations close to quarrel,Conceived within the mind in aftermaths.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on thorugh by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route''.

it's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know

Don't keep searching for the truth; Just let go of your opinions.

Everything gets sorted out in the Great Silence.

I have come to trust the power of a few well-chosen words to reveal to the world something I cannot say, or don't want to say, or didn't even know I needed to say until I saw it spelled out in front of me in the prophetic hand of the poet.

The fruit of prayer is the realization that life is an eternal adventure, and that we are explorers, always changing, always learning, always breaking open into new vistas of clarity and peace.

We can try to quiet the noise in our minds, listen for deeper instructions, and leap without fear beyond what we think is so. In

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

Aunt Helen Beck did not believe in fate, but she did think that you made mistakes according to what you wanted in your heart, and she could not understand what it was she wanted this time, what she was trying to tell herself.