Clarity Quotes - Page 28

• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Lying, Giving

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

  John Knowles

  Morning, Hate, Joy

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• That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Issues, People, Anxiety

  "Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. December 6, 2010.

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• extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stress, Tunnels, Vision

  Malcolm Gladwell (2006). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Spiritual, Hate, War

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Creativity

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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• A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

  Alan Sugar

  Inspirational, Success, Leader

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• Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
  By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left?
  There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there.
  No separation anywhere.
  Pure awareness.
  Neither this, nor that.
  Just clarity and being.

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  Ram Dass

  Letting Go, Mean, Meditation

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• Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Inspiration, Silence

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment”, Harmony

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• In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, World

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• Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Time, Stress

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• Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

  John of the Cross

  Sin, Purity, Strive

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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• Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Dark, Meditation Practice, Discipline

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

  Yi Sun-sin

  Life, Courage, Badass

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• There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.

  M. C. Escher

  Spiritual, Lying, Discovery

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• We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

  Charles Peguy

  Inspirational, Difficult

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• In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

  Karl Popper

  Views, Simplicity, Moral

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• The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

  Po Bronson

  Differences, Discipline, Choices

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• When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Commitment, Issues, Command

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• Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

  The Edge

  Dream, Vision, Angle

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• When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

  Joss Whedon

  Boyfriend, Kindness, Love You

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Touched". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

  Hugh Mackay

  Leadership, Strong, Vision

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• Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

  Lance Morrow

  Window, Abstinence, Mates

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