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Quotes About Clarity

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.
~ Mark Helprin
The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.
~ Mark Helprin
When you're alone you can long so hard for something like an embrace that you mine it from the air. You find it in meanings that you might not otherwise grasp, for which it is helpful to arise early in the morning, when the mind is clear and the heart is gentle.
~ Mark Helprin
Craig Binky decided that to salvage his position he would bear any burden and pay any price, and find out exactly what was going on. He had to redeem his honor. He decided to ask a computer. He
~ Mark Helprin
No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted—just seized.
~ Mark Helprin
By this time, no matter how hard he tried to understand, Nicolò's eyes had begun to glaze, but Alessandro had no fear of bending green cane, because he knew it seldom broke. "Remember this, then—even if
~ Mark Helprin
Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once.
~ Mark Helprin
inhaling the sparkling light until there was no distinction between the radiance of the air freshener and myself
~ Mark Leyner
quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking.
~ Mark Nepo
Help me resist the urge to dispute whether things are true or false which is like arguing whether it is day or night. It is always one or the other somewhere in the world. Together, we can penetrate a higher truth which like the sun is always being conveyed.
~ Mark Nepo
being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.
~ Mark Nepo
When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle.
~ Mark Nepo
There's no need to seek the truth-just put a stop to your opinions! -SENG-TS'AN
~ Mark Nepo
If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
~ Mark Nepo
We cannot hold on to things and enter. We must put down what we carry, open the door, and then take up only what we need to bring inside.
~ Mark Nepo
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. —SENG-TS'AN
~ Mark Nepo
Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
~ Mark Nepo
I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we see may be different than what is actually in front of us.
~ Mark Singer
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
~ Mark Twain
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
~ Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~ Mark Twain
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
~ Mark Twain
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
~ Mark Twain
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
~ Mark Twain