Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Freedom is the absence of influence.
When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tid...
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the t...
If there is one thing I can pass on from my humbling experiences in life, thus far, I will tell you this, the next time someone tells you "the absence of expectations is the absence of disappointment, do not listen. Have expectations. Keep them great...
Fear is very simple – it is the absence of love.
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Judicious absence is a weapon.
The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
In the absence of intimidation, creativity will flourish.
There lies a faith in the absence of control.
The virtue of humility is conspicuous only in its' absence.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
