Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle everything I do is stitched with its color. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had taken time off from 'F.I.R.' for three months. But its makers didn't like my absence. — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence… — Jess Bowen Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
"Consent must be freely given, can be withdrawn at any time, and the absence of 'no' does not mean 'yes.'" How many… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I was younger, loneliness was really scary - it felt like an absence - and now I feel human beings are… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye… — Joe Bolton Copy Share Image
Learn how to give your absence to those who don't appreciate your presence, in the end you will make them realize how… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would… — John Green Copy Share Image
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
What kills comedy is an absence of hard comedy commissions, traditional let's-make-every-line-funny comedy commissions. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth. — William Styron Copy Share Image
