Quotes About Moments Of Clarity

#1. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. 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.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.

Tom Holt

#4. Sometimes I have the most amazing moments of clarity. Razor sharp, crystal clear. It's at these times I can see how fucking stupid I am.

Tracey Emin

#5. Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#6. As I writer, I only have moments of clarity when my whole purpose is plain and laid out before me. The rest of the time I muddle about blind groping for clear purpose again.

Rich Feitelberg

#7. Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

Diana Vreeland

#8. We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#9. There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.

Nicole Krauss

#10. One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one's whole self. Our consciousness is feeble; only in moments of unusual clarity and vision do we really know about ourselves.

Thomas Mann

#11. Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Greil Marcus

#12. I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.

Zooey Deschanel

#13. Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

David Fontana

#14. 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

#15. A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

Avijeet Das

#16. It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties ... I understood their enduring clarity ... In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

Alice Steinbach

#17. The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

Michael Bell

#18. What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.

James Chanos

#19. Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.

Paul Reiser

#20. The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.

Angelina Jolie

#21. Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

Matthieu Ricard

#22. A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#23. The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong.

Tana French

#25. I can't not be who I am.

Randy Owen

#26. As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, Look, he's still moving!

Peter Costello

#27. If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

Jojo Moyes

#28. I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

#29. Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

Sukarno