Quotes About Long Absences

#1. In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Lindsay Davenport

#2. There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.

Esmeralda Santiago

#3. Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel

#4. It's not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It's about who learned from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

Mireille Guiliano

#6. Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

John Donne

#7. Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

Kazimir Malevich

#8. You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it's just a shithole.

Tracy Letts

#9. No practice exists in isolation.

Idries Shah

#10. Here's the new rule: break the wineglass, and fall toward the glassblower's breath.

Rumi

#11. A great champion deals with setback with a comeback,

Donna De Varona

#12. I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

Amy Tan

#13. For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

Robert Breault

#14. Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Horace

#15. Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

Anacreon

#17. Desert strategies are useful: In times of drought, pull your resources inward; when water is scarce, find moisture in seeds; to stay strong and supple, send a taproot down deep; run when required, hide when necessary; when hot go underground; do not fear darkness, it's where one comes alive.

Terry Tempest Williams

#18. A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

William Wordsworth