Quotes About Clarity

I just want to feel immaculate for a few minutes a day

Get black on white.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

The truth lies in poverty and simplicity.

We have to see things simply, but without simplifying. - Rydberg

Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund

in the end it comes down to a who and a why. Only one who. And one lone why.

Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.

What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.

we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us.

it became increasingly clear to me that I know quite well the difference between darkness and light but do not always have the courage to name them by their true names.

Jesus, of course, had this capacity to see truly. For example, Saint John tells us, Jesus did not want to entrust himself to them because he knew what was in every heart (John 2:24). Such intuitive and perceptive knowledge is the nature of discernment.

Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope.

Worrying causes us to be "all over the place," but seldom at home.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Simplify, simplify.

Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.