In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.
Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.
In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
Love has no value in the absence of truth.
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.
The absence of him is everywhere I look.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.