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A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

R. S. Thomas

Moving, Writing, Eye

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The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

Peter A. Levine

Past, Suffering, Looks

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Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this, but I also know how difficult it can be to feed our children well, particularly when the foods that are most convenient and the most heavily advertised are often the ones we should avoid. Joel Fuhrman's new book is a blessing, because it makes it so much easier. It is excellent, and full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust. It can indeed give you the power to shape your child's health destiny - John Robbins

Joel Fuhrman

Children, Book, Destiny

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Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

H. Richard Niebuhr

Wise, Goal, Territory

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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Alfred North Whitehead

Math, Ideas, Issues

Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

Tim Cahill

Dream, Ambition, Adventure

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Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

Jentezen Franklin

Heart, Bitterness, Fasting

Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast”, p.104, Charisma Media

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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Inspiring, Teacher, Compassion

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Clarity breeds mastery.

Robin Sharma

Motivational, Powerful, Achievement

Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

Andre Suares

People, Humanity, Being Different

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America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

Robert Osborne

America, Pioneers

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Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

Beatrice Warde

People, Design, Personality

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Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

Frederick Buechner

Love, Justice, Judging

Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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To focus means to bring your attention to the center, to concentrate on one thing intently in order to gain clarity.

Cheryl Richardson

Mean, Order, Focus

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If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Brené Brown

Meaningful, Spiritual, Empathy

Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

Khalil Gibran

Gratitude, Joy, Sorrow

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I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Accomplishment, Degrees, Importance

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On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.

Gilbert Sorrentino

Struggle, Blue, Two

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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

Manu Bennett

Foundation, Actors, Performers

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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

John Ralston Saul

Believe, Simplicity, Artistic

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Layne and Paul Cutright are like lasers in the way they penetrate to the core issues of relationships in their easy to read book, Straight From the Heart. It has been a long while since I've encountered such clarity on an issue that affects us all. Obviously, their wisdom comes from years of experience in their own relationship and from counseling many others on how to attain nurturing and rewarding relationships. Their book is a gift to us all. I highly recommend it to everyone.

Tolly Burkan

Book, Heart, Years

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Writing has such a power for expressionEven when you can’t talk with no one else in the whole world you can talk to your paper. Your feelings whether good, bad or indifferent. We call it despojo in Spanish, which means to be able to get rid of all this agony, weight inside of you. It brings clarity.

Piri Thomas

Writing, Mean, Agony

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It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.

Julia Cameron

Ideas, Connections, Difficult

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Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

Mooji

Letting Go, Heart, Joy

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As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

Keith Johnstone

Children, Eye, Perception

Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

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