Quotes About Clarity

writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

This is what catastrophe does: it strips away the fluff and the white noise, the should I really and the but what if.

that counts is the truth, McCafferty," he would say, just before the beer turned his conversation to blather. "Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Sometimes for our own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

Here, I could hear my thoughts. I could almost hear my heartbeat. I realized, to my surprise, that I quite liked it.

And in that moment everything shifted. I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody's center, his reason for staying. I saw that I could be enough.

the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes

Rule #2 Desire, Vision, and Focus Move Your Bus in the Right Direction.

A man with vision has a certain look in his eye and walk in his step. He walks like he knows where he is going and why he is going there, and George didn't walk like that.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

I am not mad here, but clear and calm. I am not transformed, but allowed to be wholly myself.I am isolated, but have never felt more connected to people. I am not imprisoned, but free. I am not cut off from my family and my roots, but am brought back to them. I am not living alone with dogs, but permitting my dogs to lead me somewhere I need to go, and it has been a great trip. We have more distance to travel together, I'm sure, before we are through.

Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

My name is Jon Snow. I know nothing.

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

En sista sak bara, vännen, så att jag inte missat någonting... /.../ Du vet väl om att du är homosexuell, eller hur?

There's that expression, David always uses it: 'I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Hillary didn't have a vision to articulate. And no one else could give one to her. In

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.