Quotes About Clarity

if the guy you're dating doesn't seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start "figuring him out," please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find the one that is.

When a guy is into you, he let's you know it.

Hey—do you remember that movie when the girl waited around for the guy to ask her out, then made excuses when he didn't? Then she slept with him when they were both drunk, and basically just hung around until they were kind of dating? Then

Maybe there are men like that out there, maybe there aren't. This is the only thing you need to remember: Mr. I'm Just Not Up For It is exactly the same guy as Mr. I'm Just Not That Into You. Both guys don't want to be with you. One of them may say he can't be with you, but it's still the same result. He isn't

I'm going to just tell them now that I love them, blow them in the bathroom or whatever impulsive thing that you know you shouldn't do, because that will either make him want to be with me more or bail, but at least I'll know now!

Hindsight is always 20/20, foresight rarely better than a blur

For only with the deepest knowledge can one diagnose that most elusive of conditions: the truth.

If you don't know what to do, do nothing.

be one thing at a time, one thing and one thing only.

Think this through," Evan said. "Do I seem like a guy who doesn't know what he's doing?

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential. —FREEMAN DYSON

The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.

Very carefully he thought about nothing.

There was a thin chain to thinking, he realized, which began with seeing something noticeable, which in time made you see something that wasn't apparent, which finally made you see something that wasn't even visible—if you were doing it right.

Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.

When you're sober and fit, it's the world that's fucked.

I realised that she was early drunk, in that squall of coherence before slurred speech and clumsiness and collapse.

There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.

They're (kids) so... innocent. Except that they're not. They know exactly what they want, and they don't stop till they get it.

The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.

It wasn't until I'd asked myself the question that I realized I already had the answer.

I think I'd hoped to be released by it, and solaced, just by hearing her tell me. But it wasn't like that. I felt empty: the kind of emptiness that's sad but not distressed, pitying but not broken-hearted, and damaged, somehow, but clearer and cleaner for it. And then I knew what it was, that emptiness: there's a name for it, a word we use often, without realizing the universe of peace that's enfolded in it. The word is free.

In the feeble light, it wasn't clear what I was supposed to see.