Clarity Quotes - Page 27

• Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

  Isabel Allende

  Destiny, Portraits, Stories

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.36, University of Texas Press

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• Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Wrestling, Careers, Mind

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• a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

  Ani DiFranco

  Order, Lessons

  Song: Manhole

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• Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

  Stephen King

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)

  Stephen King

  Dog, Rain, Sunshine

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• The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

  Albert Camus

  Doe, Logic, Classic

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• Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity

  Novala Takemoto

  Love, Sweet, Fall

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• The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Giving, Perspective

  "The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange". Interview with Nikki Barrowclough, The Sydney Morning Herald, www.smh.com.au. May 22, 2010.

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• Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Creativity, Thinking, Design

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• A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Thinking, Silence, Noise

  "Fictional character: George". "A Single Man", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mind, Enlightenment, Finals

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• He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.377, A&C Black

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• Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Purpose

  Jonathan Stroud (2010). “The Ring of Solomon”, p.333, Random House

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• It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Knowing, Perfect

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• Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

  T.A. Barron

  Real, Dragons, Vision

  T. A. Barron (2011). “Ultimate Magic”, p.37, Penguin

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• Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this. "Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good." "Our odds are too good

  Jennifer Crusie

  Believe, Heart, Odds

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• If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.

  Rumi

  Stars, Water, Looks

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• We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

  Lynne Truss

  Thinking, Intellectual, Degrees

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• Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Arrogance, Mistaken

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• In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage

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• Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Pay, Talent, Exceptional

  "Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".

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• There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.

  Nicole Krauss

  Wall, Order, People

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Joy, Energy

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• The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Perfection, Sinkholes

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 19, 2013

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• I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Believe

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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