Absence Quotes

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads.

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

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.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.