Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw. — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone shouldn't need to be faced with your absence to value your presence. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family. — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact… The absence of the flesh in writing… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school.… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss,… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure.… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
