Top 34 Absence Is The Best Presence Quotes
#1. It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
Mark Epstein
#2. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
Dan B. Allender
#3. I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Joss Whedon
#4. Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a fit of insane bitterness, not with cool courage, not with brave quick thinking, not with presence of mind - but with absence of it.
Kenneth Roberts
#5. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over ... Death is not anything ... death is not ... It's the absence of presence, nothing more ... the endless time of never coming back ... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound ...
Tom Stoppard
#6. All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
Anne Carson
#7. Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."
Edwin Morris
#8. The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.
John Hagee
#9. If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?
M. Scott Peck
#10. I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
Rumi
#11. Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.
C. JoyBell C.
#13. It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.
Alex Steffen
#14. Death is nothing but absence of physical presence
Mayank Sharma
#15. Real peace is not only the absence of war but the presence of God .
Osunsakin Adewale
#16. I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
My absence doth neglect no great design
Which by my presence might have been concluded.
William Shakespeare
#17. How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
Kristin Cashore
#18. Reading across disciplinary categories in this way provides one of the main organizing logics of this book because instinct's presence, absence, and characterization within different disciplines is in itself instructive about the changes to sexuality taking place around the turn of the century.
Kathleen Frederickson
#19. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#20. In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
Gautama Buddha
#22. Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
Rudolf Steiner
#24. The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.
Rita Zahara
#25. Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.
Debasish Mridha
#26. As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.
Alcibiades
#27. Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#28. Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
Richard Lamm
#29. Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.
Idries Shah
#30. You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
Meghan Daum
#31. As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.
Robert J. Wiersema
#32. The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice - or not yet - a decided one. So also is the truth or falsehood of every one of the miracle stories that religions rely upon to impress multitudes of the faithful.
Richard Dawkins
#33. For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.
George Eliot
#34. God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
Rob Bell
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