#clarity

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #perception #truth #imagination

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#clear #dark #disguise #glass #heart

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #mothers #parents #humor

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#justice #leadership #wisdom #freedom

In life, you can learn a lot by simply watching the water. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#philosophy #life

One should use common words to say uncommon things ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#naivete #simplicity #writing #simplicity

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#clarity #enjoy #i #more #much

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#decided #filmmaker #had #i #life