Quotes Tagged "absence"

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

If your Absence doesn't Kill someone, Your Presence sure did not Matter.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Eternity is not the inexhaustible sum of all the centuries, quite the contrary —it must surely be this absence of time. Absolute calm (which can be more than a little dull!).

This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.

The value of knowledge is best appreciated in its absence.

The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere.

The only obstacle is the absence of the knowledge in our minds of the wisdom of God that is able to move any mountain

The reason for the absence of success in your life is not due to the lack of money, but to not having enough knowledge of the principles of success

The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.