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Absences Quotes (page 5)

Salman Rushdie quote: "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence. Salman Rushdie
John Piper quote: "My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve..."
My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization. John Piper
Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognise the gulf that separates them from us. Leo Tolstoy
Azar Nafisi quote: "This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its..."
This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences Azar Nafisi
...for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing. Guillermo del Toro
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom. Naomi Klein
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. Allan Bloom
Many feelings are simply too good to last--using the phrase not in the unbelieving sense in which it is generally used, but to express the fact that intensity and endurance cannot coexist in the human frame. But the virtue of a mood depends by no means on its immediate presence. Like any other experience, it may be believed in, and, in its absence, which leaves the mind free to contemplate it, works even more good than its presence George MacDonald
In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last longer if there are impediments of its gratification. If a lover is prevented from enjoying his love by absence, difficulty of access, or by the caprice or coldness of his beloved, he can find a little consolation in the thought that when his wishes are fulfilled his delight will be intense. But love being what it is, should there be no hindrances, he will pay no attention to... W. Somerset Maugham
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world. Victor Hugo
How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe. Petrarch
Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence -- and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here -- and I... Friedrich Schiller
Jane Addams quote: "True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the..."
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. Jane Addams
Idries Shah quote: "Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding..."
Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge. Idries Shah
Every person needs to take one day away? A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future? Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence? Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for? Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. Maya Angelou

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