Quotes About Clarity

when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.

Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will be answered

Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two.

not now. He was quiet, and then he said, "You are the only person in this world I want to have sitting here beside me. That isn't what I think, it's what I know. I guess it doesn't explain anything.

Sometimes I feel like we've just been living on hints. Seeing the world through a keyhole. That's how it would seem to us when we looked back.

People talk about how wonderful the world must seem to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. That's clearer to me every day. Each morning I am like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes.

He may, so to speak, have been too dazzled by the great light of his experience to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all.

Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don't add up. They don't even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing. Nothing makes sense until we realize that experience does not accumulate like money, or memories, or like years and frailties.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

People don't understand that the hardest thing is actually doing something that is close to nothing. It demands all of you...there is no object to hide behind. It's just you.

Bija prieks atkal piev?rsties rakst?šanai ar galvu, kas skaidra no koka?na un patiesas m?lest?bas.

Es r?kojos k? man ir vislab?k. Un vislab?k ir b?t vienk?ršam. Pavisam, pavisam vienk?ršam. Un, kad vajag ko ?pašu, tam j?b?t pavisam, pavisam ?pašam.

Un estómago que evacua puntual y totalmente es gemelo de una mente clara y de un alma bien pensada

relato está manifestándose, sintéticamente, una totalización equivalente a la que el todo aspira a representar.

Ortega y Gasset: «La claridad es la cortesía del filósofo».

Son cosas irreconciliables, Alice. No se engañe: el patriotismo es una religión, está reñido con la lucidez. Es puro oscurantismo, un acto de fe».

I don't think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.' 'Maybe you're right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…

But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things

But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.

I was aware of how shoddily stitched together the words were—suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are

that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.