"This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel."
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"We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force."
"Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane."
"I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language."
"...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates."
"Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me."
"there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity."
"You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something."
"Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind."
"Clarity proceeds Mastery!"
"Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors."
"I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers."
"First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind."
"I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal."
"Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values."
"Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to.""
"Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers."
"There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing around it. There's a clarity and precision and impact there that you sometimes lose if you put everything else in that background."
"What we don't understand we don't possess."
"I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase."