Absence Quotes - Page 22

• Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

  Bob Goff

  Calling The Shots, Calling, Shots

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• By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

  Justus von Liebig

  Life, Earth, Soil

  Justus von Liebig (1855). “Principles of agricultural chemistry with special reference to the late researches made in England: By Justus von Liebig. (Ed. by William Gregory)”, p.31

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• We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

  Aaron Antonovsky

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.

  Daniel Odier

  Space, Ties, Ego

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• Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Love, Separation, Love Is

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• We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Causes, Existence

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• For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

  John Donne

  Love, Art, Darkness

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

  John Donne

  Love, Soul, Dull

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.555

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• Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Catholic, Unshakable Faith

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• We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Karma, War, Ignorance

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.75, Parallax Press

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• The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Hug

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.812, Modern Library

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• In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Business, Failure, Essentials

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• All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, People, Nerves

  Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”

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• What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Mean

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• Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

  Myles Munroe

  Trying, Neglect, Success Failure

  Myles Munroe, T. D. Jakes (2007). “Myles Munroe Devotional & Journal: 365 Days to Realize Your Potential”, p.9, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts.

  Robert Higgs

  Acceptance, Agreement, Events

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• What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

  Pascal Mercier

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Men, Purity

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• Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.

  Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

  Broken Heart, Winter, Sky

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• Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Real, Fire, Wind

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• Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

  Horatius Bonar

  Want, Recognition, Goodness

  Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com

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• As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

  Dave Hickey

  Positivity, Blue, Color

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• For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

  Patrick Modiano

  Summer, Past, Long

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• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

  Anne Carson

  Hate, Axes, Desire

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• The absence of disease is not health.

  Shawn Achor

  Disease

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