If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations,… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation;… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor:… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Emmeline didn’t call me anything. She didn’t need to, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them no why I've been absent.… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people do. There are a… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and -… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
