Quotes About Clarity

Când vrei s? spui repede un lucru esenÈ›ial, nu numai c? îl spui dramatic, dar îl spui oarecum ridicol

Perhaps we need to know more specifically what we are fighting to achieve (not only what we are fighting to destroy), and what actions would be required for such an achievement, even after the fight has been won, if it is won.

to survive something we first need to know what it is we are surviving

I don't know now why I let her believe otherwise, but someday, perhaps, it will be clear.

Let's not waste time by dwelling on the unknown. But that's what thinking is

Ja vjerujem u ?isto?u umjetni?ke spoznaje, kao u još jedinu ?isto?u koja nam je preostala u ovom životinjstvu oko nas!

Filip se gubio u detaljima te nikako nije mogao da tim detaljima oko sebe udahne neki dublji smisao.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die. But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.

Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

Just because you see things straight doesn't mean you see them in time.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even

Your voice was a weather vane, it told us how your wind was blowing.

America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. But there still seemed to be no clear answers.

And facing death changes all that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He

Mitch, he said, the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up in egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they're marrying?

Why is it so hard to think about dying? "Because," Morrie continued, "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes all that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.