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1 " Beannacht / BlessingOn the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you.And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you,may a flock of colours,indigo, red, green,and azure bluecome to awaken in youa meadow of delight.When the canvas fraysin the currach of thoughtand a stain of oceanblackens beneath you,may there come across the watersa path of yellow moonlightto bring you safely home.May the nourishment of the earth be yours,may the clarity of light be yours,may the fluency of the ocean be yours,may the protection of the ancestors be yours.And so may a slowwind work these wordsof love around you,an invisible cloakto mind your life. "
2 " Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, " hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this? "
3 " I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , A Short Autobiography
4 " We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack" . "
5 " Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, gardens, the bays of seas assigned to my brush came closer, ready now to be described better than they were before. "
― , The Noble Traveller - The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. Milosz
6 " ...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward. "
― Morgan Rhodes , Frozen Tides (Falling Kingdoms, #4)
7 " Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong. "
― Alan Lightman , Einstein's Dreams
8 " Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose. "
― , How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
9 " Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher. "
10 " We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack. "
― Anne Bishop , Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)
11 " Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult. "
― Louise Erdrich , The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
12 " I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision. "
― Ken Liu , The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
13 " Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead. "
― Joss Whedon
14 " ...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of the image and the vast populations of stars unknown to him until then, the riotous glittering in the dark crevices between constellations, a convocation of bright spirits waiting to be found. "
15 " it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing - from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allow the present and paste to take their rightful place at the centre of our attention. The past is palpable to Sheldon now, in the way the future is to the young. It is either a brief curse or a gift before oblivion. "
― Derek B. Miller , Norwegian by Night (Sigrid Ødegård #1)
16 " InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning "
― Irum Zahra , Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
17 " Who knew it was in my power to make anyone so happy? Or that I could ever be so happy myself? My moods were a slingshot; after being locked-down and anesthetized for years my heart was zinging and slamming itself around like a bee under a glass, everything bright, sharp, confusing, wrong - but it was a clean pain as opposed to the dull misery that had plagued me for years under the drugs like a rotten tooth, the sick dirty ache of something spoiled. The clarity was exhilarating; it was as if I'd removed a pair of smudged-up glasses that fuzzed everything I saw. All summer long I had been practically delirious: tingling, daffy, energized, running on gin and shrimp cocktail and the invigorating whock of tennis balls. And all I could think was Kitsey, Kitsey, Kitsey! "
― Donna Tartt , The Goldfinch
18 " When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that? "
― Beth Johnson , Thoughts From The Inside
19 " Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
20 " When you experience the clarity that comes when you choose trust and love, you can see other people accurately – as the same as you. "
― Kimberly Giles
