Absence Quotes - Page 34

• At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Elements, Bottom

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• The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Magic, Doe, Tricks

  Bernard Cornwell (1999). “Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good. When you focus upon what you want - ;when you tell the story of how you want your life to be - you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Powerful, Focus

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.295, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

  Timothy Keller

  People, Tolerance, Belief

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• The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Favors, Wealth, Mark

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• Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Development, Want

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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• Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Coarse, Vulgar

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• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Grief, Air

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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• In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Order, Enjoy, Feels

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

  Bill Vaughan

  Psychological Health, Life Is Hard, Healthy

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• The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Covenant, May

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.242

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• I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Grandparent, Quality, Body

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• True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

  Helen Rowland

  Love Is, Years, Long

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Money, Motivation

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• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.158, Cosimo, Inc.

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• apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

  Margaret Benson

  Opportunity, Discovery, Law

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

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• Fear is the absence of faith.

  Paul Tillich

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• Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Doe, Endure

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Doctrine, Tradition, Liturgy

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

  Betty Friedan

  Light, Darkness, Age

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Real, War

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.181, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

  Freya Stark

  Depressing, Art, Evil

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.159, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

  Mary McCarthy

  Sex, Character, Space

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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