Quotes about Clarity

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't!

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

When I make a decision, I will stand behind it. My energy will go into making the decision. I will waste none on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.