Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck 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
By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
People will change when they see that the change will help them reach their goals. If the CHRO sees that the HR… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
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
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of… — Tom McCall 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
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its… — Victor Hugo 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
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
