Quotes About Clarity

Men who want to get married propose. You don't need to read the signs. They propose and that's the sign.

Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

I don't know who I am any more. I have no bloody idea. ... I don't know who I am. Or what my goal is...or where I'm headed in life. Or anything

Although, as Leonardo da Vinci said: "Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge

Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say.

I've never understood the "sleep on it" thing. What, have a miserable, sleepless night, brooding on your problem, simply in order to do the thing you were going to do the night before—only now you've delayed by twelve hours. How is that a good idea?

But the trouble with asking your subconscious what it wants is, it just laughs at you and says, 'Work it out for yourself, moron.

OK, I have to make sure we're on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England.

I'm sorry, says Linus. Don't be sorry, I say, almost aggressively. You didn't say anything. Which is true. He didn't say anything. He stopped mid-sentence. Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, partially aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which they then deny.

What if I do nothing for six minutes? What am I supposed to write down then?

If you ask me, the system is majorly flawed. It should be clearer. People should have engaged signs, like toilets. Taken. Not-Taken. There should be no ambiguity about these things.

If life has taught me anything, it's don't ever assume. Nail it down. Get things clear.

The 'what' is easy. It's the 'why'.

How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

Those who jump to conclusions may go wrong.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

Truth is always the strongest argument.

You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.

I try to say what I mean; it's my habit.

Indeed, if the truth has any power.

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life