Quotes About Clarity

As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation.

Is that a dangler in your memo or are you just glad to see me?

Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how—if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas—it will show.

RENEWAL Imagine not that life is all doing. Stillness, too, is life; and in that stillness the mind cluttered with busyness quiets, the heart reaching to win rests, and we hear the whispered truths of God. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

the way life will when we learn what to hold, what to let go

I try to use words, whether in prose or poetry, that people can understand, that make them feel in an intense way. I'm a writer, that's what I do.

Messages are everywhere if we choose to see them, prompting us & guiding us to our next steps.

Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science.

go in the direction your head is pointed in.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name.

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all.

Meditation is one attempt! to be above the thinking of the mind, to Realize the inexplicable stage of awareness."

Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train.

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more? I'll tell you what I see, Peter. A clear path. More than that. A true path.

Weren't the question the man had wrong, it was his way of asking it.

When he decided they weren't police, he realized he'd been thinking maybe they were.

He felt not surprise or even regret but, rather, a deep and sudden gratitude and, with it, a force of clarity, filling him like a breath of winter air. He wondered what this feeling was and then he knew. He was giving her up.

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

Nebunia înseamn? uneori în?elepciune.

God, had I been following the wrong set of coordinates my entire life, my eyes set on Beauty instead of True Beauty

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

I'm not sure I understand what love is. It's like 'good'. No one's explained it clearly. I love ice-cream. I love chess and mathematics. I love getting what I want. I love getting away with things. But not people. They're either useful or they're not.

Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.