There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
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.
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.
Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U. S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing interest rates, recession, and inevitable tax increases on all Americans.
The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.
The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.