Quotes About Clarity

Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place.

You ask me whether the Orient is up to what I imagined it to be. Yes, it is; and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind. Facts have taken the place of suppositions - so excellently so that it is often as though I were suddenly coming upon old forgotten dreams.

It's no easy business to be simple.

Ce qu'il ne comprenait pas, c'était tout ce trouble dans une chose aussi simple que l'amour.

Then she asked herself, Isn't he in love with someone? Who could it be? …Why, it's me! All the evidence immediately became clear to her, and her heart leapt.

I feel that I am not saying what I want to say, I haven't found the proper outlet for my thoughts.

univers venait tout à coup de s'élargir. Elle était le point lumineux où l'ensemble des choses convergeait

Alors une faculté pitoyable se développa dans leur esprit, celle de voir la bêtise et de ne plus la tolérer.

Válka vypukne, když si dvÄ› zemÄ› pÃ…â"¢isvojují nárok na stejné území, když nebyly pÃ…â"¢esne ur?eny hranice mezi dvÄ›ma nezávislými státy nebo když v nich ?asem doÅ¡lo k nejakým nesrovnalostem. Tam, kde jsou hranice pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› vymezeny a respektovány, k nejasnostem ani ke konflikt?m nedohádzí.

Quantas vezes passamos ao lado de uma felicidade possível, sem darmos por ela, visto que não há quem possa penetrar no mistério dos pensamentos, nos abandonos secretos da vontade, nos apelos mudos da carne, em todo o desconhecido de uma alma de mulher cuja boca permanece silenciosa e o olhar impenetrável e claro?

Il sentait vaguement des pensées lui venir ; il les aurait dites, peut-être, mais il ne les pouvait point formuler avec des mots écrits. Et son impuissance l'enfiévrant, il se leva de nouveau, les mains humides de sueur et le sang battant aux tempes.

Il revoyait en souvenir la jolie cité claire, dégringolant, comme une cascade de maisons plates, du haut de sa montagne dans la mer, mais il ne trouvait plus un mot pour exprimer ce qu'il avait vu, ce qu'il avait senti.

I ask myself whether I am mad. As I was walking just now in the sun by the riverside, doubts as to my own sanity arose in me; not vague doubts such as I have had hitherto, but precise and absolute doubts. I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point.

But you can't be saying I should walk away from everything I have worked for all my life? No, I am not. What I am saying is that we need to take a much closer look at what we have been calling our life. To what purpose? To see if it is really ours. Once we know what is authentically our own, then we also know what to keep and protect and what to let go.

Kimse parçalanmay? seçmez, mutluluk hakk?ndaki düÅŸünceleri paramparça olmad??? sürece.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering

If you can't describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don't have a business model.

Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? GEORGE ORWELL, "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Numbers are a bad idea for names because people won't know whether to use numerals (123) or to spell out the number (One Two Three).

It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.

Los hombres de más amplio intelecto saben que no existe una verdadera distinción entre lo real y lo irreal; que todas las cosas aparecen tal como son tan solo en virtud de los frágiles sentidos físicos y mentales mediante los que las percibimos; pero el prosaico materialismo de la mayoría tacha de locuras a los destellos de clarividencia que traspasan el vulgar velo del empirismo chabacano.

Oh, Daddy, do 'splain yourself you are not 'splaining yourself at all.