If someone doesnt appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What I want are words to define myself without the connotations of absence.” — Laurel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I wont let you have it. I wont give you this moment. I wont let you fill up this valuable organ...I own… — Shalini Copy Share Image
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
