Clouded Quotes

• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

  George Lucas

  Depression, Fear, Hate

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Clouds, Fickle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

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• How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts.

  Rajneesh

  Single Mom, Facts, Moments

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• So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

  Ovid

  Long, Secure, Ifs

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1315, Delphi Classics

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• My mind is clouded with a doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Doubt, Mind

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

  Yoko Ono

  Judgement, Burden, Ifs

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2015

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• Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

  Agnes Martin

  Inspiration, Mind, Realizing

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

  Annie E. Clark

  Struggle, Emotional, Being Real

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory is clouded with repression and a desire to embellish. The recollections of any individual are conditioned by the general truths to which he or she has tried to live. To recall an event is to interpret it, so the truth is altered by the very act of remembering. Therefore the truth, like God, does not exist - only the search for it.

  Frank Hardy

  Art, Memories, Desire

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• The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Men, Cheerful

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.59, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

  Julian Jaynes

  Twins, Evolution, Problem

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• The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Real, Passion, Issues

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• The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.

  Amber Heard

  Perspective, Feminist, Movement

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Summer, Lying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Girl, Mother

  1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).

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• If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

  William Hazlitt

  Peace, Doe, Littles

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

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• You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Anxiety, Able

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• Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.

  Paul Buchheit

  Letting Go, Self, Expectations

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• Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

  Beth Moore

  Sometimes, Said, Feels Right

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• The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Struggle, Long, Vision

  "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.

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• When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.

  Zicheng Hong

  Pain, Mirrors, Water

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• Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

  Waziyatawin

  Memories, Fog, Imagination

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• I was born 'neath a clouded star.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Born

  Julia Ward Howe (1854). “Passion-flowers”, p.2

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