Absence Quotes - Page 28

• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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• But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

  Rene Dubos

  Boredom, Goal, Creative

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• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  Rafik Hariri

  Israel, Agreement, Lebanon

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• During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

  Ken Jennings

  Flying, Secret, Trying

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• Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

  Ann Brashares

  Peace, Sex, Weapons

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

  Russell Pearce

  Law, Immigration, United States

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• The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

  George Saunders

  Pain, Kindness, Law

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

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• I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

  Jonathan Lethem

  New York, Writing, Energy

  "Straight outta Brooklyn". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

  Criss Jami

  Unrequited Love, Simple, Love Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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• Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Soul, Body

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• In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Perception

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• Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

  Henry Adams

  Love Is, Average, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.31, Booklassic

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• The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Men, Landscape

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2014). “What Is Philosophy?”, p.169, Columbia University Press

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• Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

  Petrarch

  Soul, Breathe, Your Absence

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• However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

  Rachel Hartman

  Home, Rocks, Long

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• There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, Attitude, Men

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

  Momofuku Ando

  Inspiration, Tenacity, Invention

  "If You Only Visit One Weird Museum In 2016, Let It Be This One" by Parker Hilton, uproxx.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Husband, Together, Littles

  Tehmina Durrani (1998). “Blasphemy: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin Books India

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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• Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

  Earl A Grollman

  Courage, Pain, Affirmation

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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• There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

  Lee Hammond

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

  Lee Hammond (2002). “Drawing in Color - Animals”, p.78, North Light Books

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• The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Errors, Data

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged”, p.156

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• Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

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• I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.

  Gideon Glick

  Art, Mean, Nyu

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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