Perfect Clarity Quotes

#1. Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal

#2. I was uncertain of our direction, but I knew one thing with perfect clarity: I was in the arms of a man who loved me.

Dannika Dark

#3. Try to fit in." Winter glanced at her, a moment of perfect clarity and even humor in the look. She was right. They were filthy. They were bloody. Winter was a well-loved princess who was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in would be a miracle.

Marissa Meyer

#4. As Kevin listed these moments, she could see them with perfect clarity: all the missed cues and deflections, all the abortive moments of intimacy. All this time, she had been thinking of him as the one with commitment issues. Somewhere along the line, she had become an asshole.

Charlie Jane Anders

#5. It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

Bill Hybels

#6. Therefore, it is my belief that Blind Benny, even with his poor sightless eyes, is the only person I know who can see with perfect clarity. Because Benny is able to see beyond appearances.

Ruth White

#7. A few things go through your mind when you do something stupid. Like, oh hell this was stupid, along with that moment of perfect clarity that this might be the last stupid thing you ever do.

Amelia Hutchins

#8. God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.

Blaise Pascal

#9. Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

James Richardson

#10. I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

John Mole

#11. What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.

Michael Cunningham

#12. It's all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn't have this story to tell you. I wouldn't be the same person telling it.

Lisa Unger

#13. Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Douglas Adams

#14. Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

Jenny Lewis

#15. That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

Jerry Harrison

#16. Conscious you believes it without question. And not merely believes it but experiences it.

David Eagleman

#17. In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness.

Amit Ray

#18. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.

Jane Borodale

#19. Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.

Thomm Quackenbush

#20. Where I am today ... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

Demi Lovato

#21. The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.

Benjamin Carson

#22. Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.

S. Tarr

#23. Wow, if Portlanders could do that to a biker, they could turn anyone into a hipster.

Joanna Wylde

#24. I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.

Helene Hanff

#25. The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.

Frederick Lenz

#26. But now what was I worth? The books I discovered at the behest of my intellectually superior professors are now coming to me thanks to an algorithm developed to suggest what I should buy based on what other similar shoppers have also bought...

Keith Buckley

#27. I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin in clarity and to end in mystery.

Billy Collins

#28. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.

Gail Davis

#29. No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Jonathan Swift

#30. He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.

Anandamayi Ma

#31. I enjoyed my 15 years at the top, and now I enjoy watching the current crop. What I did, maybe they can't do, and what they do, perhaps I couldn't do. It's like that. I wanted to simply be the best. On a professional level, I wanted to be No. 1, and I worked hard to be that.

Jahangir Khan

#32. And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.

Scott Westerfeld

#33. My love is like agape and not eros.

Debasish Mridha