Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If
Art is the absence of fear.
The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.
Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.