Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to ‘lay it on’ in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

I would hope that we could see the court have less 5-4 decisions and speak with more clarity, … I think the president, with four of us there, may well get some response on what we think about those names.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of...

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants…then she is not the one.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that...

Clarity equals victory. Look at successful people. Do you really think they have seven effective habits? Fuck no. Who’s got time for that? They have one effective habit: DOING. When you are a ‘doer’ you lap the rest of the rats in the race.

Since eternity, mankind has denied what was to be deeply understood and transformed, all the emotions that were primal in one’s progress in higher consciousness, was subjugated, condemned so deeply that we are still struck with basic human body, making it impossible to transcend towards self-realization. All forms of art are just devices to go...

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love’s myriad ways of communicating.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have!...

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

…it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all...

…for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she’d written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.

The difference between a trained mind and a free mind is that a trained mind will fail to see just how trained their mind is by tradition, while a free mind has discarded such limitations…

Achieve complete clarity as to what you intend to achieve, and develop a real ‘knowing’ of exactly where you would like to be in your life.

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery...

When there is no distraction, there is clarity.

Clear thinking is to think of nothing at all.

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he’d never hear the end of it. She’d latch onto his flawed character and hold it up for relentless ridicule till the end of time, or thereabouts.

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

Two friends raised their heads up to the sky on a dark evening.-Look at the stars.–Let us make a wish.They each took a moment of silence.-What did you wish for?–For you to have peace with your wish.

Kipo kitu kinaendelea kufanyika katika siku zetu za furaha na katika siku zetu za huzuni kwa kila mmojawetu hapa duniani bila ya upendeleo wowote. Kitu hicho ni kuingia na kutoka kwa pumzi, au kupumua. Ukiithamini pumzi inayoingia na kutoka ndani ya mwili wako utapata zawadi ya amani katika maisha yako. Utapata pia zawadi ya furaha,...

Let me be clear: I don’t want to make love to a mannequin—I want to make love like a mannequin. Oh, if only I were that animated in bed.

The problem is that the agency that we are appropriating most of the money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional,

and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.

Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment — a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.

Die, welche schwierige, dunkle, verflochtene, zweideutige Reden zusammensetzen, wissen ganz gewiss nicht recht, was sie sagen wollen, sondern haben nur ein dumpfes, nach einem Gedanken erst ringendes Bewusstsein davon; oft aber wollen sie sich selber und anderen verbergen, dass sie eigentlich nichts zu sagen haben.

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

What really matters is:—1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If...

Your book, ‘The Tyranny of God,’ is well done. It is a very clear statement of the question, bold and true beyond dispute. I am glad that you wrote it. It is as plain as the multiplication table, which doesn’t mean that everyone will believe it. I thank you for writing it. I wish I...

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads...

He talked with more claret than clarity.