'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art… — Frederick William Thomas Copy Share Image
Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
One of the best feelings in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous 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
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
There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment.… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
And, Annabeth continued, it reminds me how long weve known each other. We were twelve, Percy. Can you believe that? No, he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It's sad how absence shows us the worth of things. Thats when learn to appreciate or live without. — Ivan Avendano Copy Share Image
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be. — John Donne Copy Share Image
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Absences can also make one forget. Absence dulls the memory and banishes those who are precious from the mind.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“With your absence I have realised that hoe the once, warm comforting streets have suddenly turned to become so cold and dark” — Kiran Joshi Copy Share Image
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