Quotes About Clarity

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Was the reality quite what he had been telling himself it was?

One thing at least was beginning to clarify itself in Elizabeth's mind. Their separation had not been brought about by his lack of love or by cruelty. Somehow there had been a massive misunderstanding. For six years each of them had believed the other at fault. Each had carried the pain and the bitterness all that time.

nearest their window was horribly visible

You cannot make a romantic lover of me, my dear. Or a noble character. I want you. In bed, do you understand? And I mean to do everything in my power during the next two weeks to have you there. Nothing else. No romance.

It always was well nigh impossible to get any sense out of you, Jack, she said. Have you ever said anything to anyone that you really meant?

Can't you see? Have you been blind all these years? Haven't you known that it has always been you? Always?

When people live in denial of the truth—sometimes large groups of them all together—they lose their . . . I am not sure of the right word. They lose something precious, something good and right and true. Their integrity, perhaps? You forced everyone to confront the truth—even those who did not know it before

I am not your wife. We are strangers. Did I imagine that wedding service we attended together in a small church in Devon? he asked. Did I imagine that we consummated the marriage in a very thorough manner for two nights?

I cannot imagine anyone having such a criminal lack of sense.

Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.

It was then that she experienced an instant of unprecedented clarity, a moment of wholly unanticipated certainty that God was real. The sensation fled almost as quickly as it came but left in its wake the conviction that Emilio was right, that they were meant to be here, doing this impossible thing.

By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story.

Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.

The trouble with illusions... is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken from you

wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Then I must be very wisdom. I don't understand anything.

Mary Gaitskill

He looks like somebody wandering in a dark maze, clutching his little bit of goodness, knowing it's all he's got but not remembering what it is or how to use it.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Keegi ei ole nii pime kui see, kes ei taha näha.

Finally, put it aside. Put it out of your head at least a week. You want it to set up like jello. And when you pick it back up, ask yourself, What haven't I said? How might someone else involved have seen it differently?

I revise and revise and revise. Any editor of mine will tell you how crappy my early drafts are. Revisions are about clarifying and evoking feelings in the reader in the same way they were once evoked in me.

Unless you're like my friend, poet Brooks Haxton (who translates Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and German), throwing in three-dollar words will just make you look like a dick.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain Every