Quotes About Clarity

All of that, however, is clear only in hindsight.

chess games are rarely lost by oversights but rather by "the failure to apprehend certainties".

When everything is available, every lifestyle on offer, when all you have is freedom, but nothing to guide you in that freedom, "it's not so much that you lose the thread of the meaning of your life, you have trouble even staying focused on the question.

the greatest challenge comes when we are least conscious of the presence of a challenge.

there is a rabbinic principle: "Scripture does not depart from its plain meaning.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

Isn't it hard to maintain an argument when you can read each other's mind?

Time snapped back into one piece. I was wholly in the present, alert and questioning.

This emptiness you talk about," I said, "I think you're getting too worked up about it.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery.

It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.

I don't want balance. What I want is the brick! I want to find the one thing in my life that, if I get that right, it doesn't matter what the world throws onto the other side of the scale.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

I wish I knew what you were talking about," she returned. "Where's the pin?" "Pin?" "Yes. Pin. To fasten the diaper. The kid can't hold the thing up with two hands.

Non resta che una cosa: pregare, perché le tenebre non si confondano con la luce

La sua persona è così trasparente che la si può confondere con la Presenza.

that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, and that such a person need expect nothing from the Great Law. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally