See Clearly Quotes

#1. Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.

Elisabeth Elliot

#2. There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

Catherine McAuley

#3. God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.

Anton Myrer

#4. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.

Shirley Jackson

#6. I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Gary Shteyngart

#7. Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.

Vinod Khosla

#8. To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

Julie Christie

#10. It's funny, sometimes, when you look at the people who brought you into this world and you see yourself so clearly in them.

Robert McCammon

#11. If kids clearly see the promise, they will gladly pay the price.

Jim Rohn

#12. Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

Mariska Hargitay

#13. Keep your faith in all things hidden. We believe in the stars when we cannot see them. We believe in the sun when it no longer shines for us. And we believe in the universal truth even when it is not shown clearly.

Hilary Thompson

#14. The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

James Richardson

#15. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Charles F. Stanley

#16. We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

Nawal El Saadawi

#17. When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.

Alan Finger

#18. Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

Louis Mann

#19. It seems to me ... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions ... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Gustave Flaubert

#20. Clearly here was someone, like me, who tended to stumble through life and managed to see the funny side of situations. Someone who, like me, was fairly shy, yet not averse to expressing his opinions; someone who unlike me had a developed sense of his own worth and had the effrontery to convey it.

Jane Hawking

#21. A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

John Steinbeck

#22. The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

Leland Ryken

#23. Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

James Wood-Mason

#24. Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.

James Lee Burke

#25. Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#26. Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Conrad Veidt

#27. You have to look closely to see clearly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey

#29. I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

#30. The Log in My Eye You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. MATTHEW 7:5

Joyce Meyer

#31. It had always been a myth that it was those who loved you who could see through you. It was those you feared who could see through you most clearly.

Cornelia Funke

#32. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#33. We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

Ouida

#34. Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

Francine Rivers

#35. Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

Steve Buscemi

#36. People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis Brown

#37. Helping others see the future clearly and feel it deeply, is the most important responsibility of a leader.

Jim Louwsma

#38. Here the sky is wrapped in silk. The breathings of so many men and animals, and the smoke of your coal, and the fog, oh, it is too much. The Paris sky is perfect. A man must see clearly, to see something new.

John Pipkin

#39. I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.

Cynthia Voigt

#40. I'm still trying to defog the bathroom mirror to see the dream for what it clearly is.

From A Wildflower

#41. Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#42. It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

Brandon Sanderson

#43. If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Natsuki Takaya

#44. Thy key to being able to communicate and benefit from each other is to truly see you own value. That will allow you to see it more clearly in others.

Garrison Wynn

#45. We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Tony Dungy

#46. It involved giving up what I thought was bringing me comfort, only to clearly see they were leading to a sure and certain early death. I was committing suicide slowly, sweet morsel by sweet morsel (p. 219).

Teresa Shields Parker

#47. Bringing him back" had been through those months my hidden focus, a magic trick. By late summer I was beginning to see this clearly. "Seeing it clearly" did not yet allow me to give away the clothes he would need. I

Joan Didion

#48. See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I'm really feeling. And it doesn't. It's a shortcut.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#49. And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband's heart in his hands and he doesn't even know it. He's too busy looking at the details of Ash's faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.

Sierra Simone

#50. If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

Samuel Butler

#51. It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.

Alexandre Dumas

#52. I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

Sylvia Plath

#53. You don't see yourself clearly, but I do. You're the man that I want, and I'm fighting for you, fighting for us.

Ella Fox

#54. I don't want to scare you," he said, "but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.

J.D. Salinger

#55. I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.

Michael J. Sullivan

#56. Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

Denis Waitley

#57. You can get to a place where you see clearly; that place is zero defensiveness.

Bryant McGill

#58. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

#59. See, whoever said I was an autocrat was clearly mistaken. I represented the height of representative democracy where everyone gets a vote. Mine just counted for more than all the other ones combined, when you read the final tally; that's all.

Luke Sky Wachter

#60. If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

Tony Kushner

#61. People saw more and more clearly, and now the majority see quite clearly, the senselessness and immorality of subordinating their wills to those of other people just like themselves, when they are bidden to do what is contrary not only to their interests but also to their moral sense.

Leo Tolstoy

#62. Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

John F. Kennedy

#63. That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

Don DeLillo

#64. I see so deeply within myself
Not needing my eyes.
I can see everything clearly!
Why would I want to bother my eyes again???
Now that I see the world ...
through His eyes.

Rumi

#65. Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

Mark Frost

#66. It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Henri Poincare

#67. The light of lights streams through my mind, body, and affairs, revealing all in Divine order. I see clearly there are no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the open road of fulfillment.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#68. Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#69. We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.

Stanley Hauerwas

#70. It was better to see clearly. Even the ugliness of the world had its place. Eventually,

T. Frohock

#71. How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

Hanshan

#72. Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#73. It is necessary ... to point out to such people certain places where I am certain they will have only to see clearly to recognize the great difference ...

Canguilhem

#74. I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.

John Cleese

#75. The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#76. Let her see me clearly.

Stephenie Meyer

#77. You're scared, but just because you can't see your future, doesn't mean I can't. I see it clearly because I can see mine.

Amanda Maxlyn

#78. By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.

Doc Childre

#79. Clearly see you can't see Clear

Dave Mustaine

#80. Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

Nathanael Emmons

#81. I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Pope Francis

#82. Many of us worry about the situation of the world ... We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

Nhat Hanh

#83. The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in our own victimhood, we no longer feel bound by moral considerations in becoming perpetrators.

Julie Mertus

#84. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

Maxwell Maltz

#85. Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time, we didn't see that. We believed in our capacity to grow a great country. A just society.

Kaimana Wolff

#86. Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

Karen Salmansohn

#87. God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am.

Sylvia Plath

#88. In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

Henry David Thoreau

#89. A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

Richard Jefferies

#90. The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible

Hans Christian Andersen

#91. I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

Patrick O'Brian

#92. To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.

Chester Bowles

#93. A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Toby Keith

#94. A model is by definition that in which nothing has to be changed, that which works perfectly; whereas reality, as we see clearly, does not work and constantly falls to pieces; so we must force it, more or less roughly, to assume the form of the model.

Italo Calvino

#95. Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

Haruki Murakami

#96. No one can see your visions and dreams as clearly as you can. Purpose is the key to creation manifested through vision.

Kym Gordon Moore

#97. Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.

Kathleen Rooney

#98. When you see only problems, you're not seeing clearly.

Phil Knight

#99. A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.

John Dryden

#100. I think about you every day. I see you in every happy place. I see you so clearly every time there's goodness and laughter.

Christine Brae