Quotes About Presence

You know how when you find somebody who you know is in touch with the truth, how you want to be in the presence of that person?" People felt that way about him.

He once asked me, "You know how when you find somebody who you know is in touch with the truth, how you want to be in the presence of that person?

I think, for me, I need to be myself." Another pause. "And I've never been a kind of a hyperactive, runaround kind of person. I think one of the greatest gifts that we can give anybody is the gift of one more honest adult in that person's life—whether [the recipient] be a child or an adult. "And so, for me, being quiet and slow is being myself, and that is my gift.

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence.

He had learned that sometimes, watching someone work or standing beside them, looking at stars or at bugs or at a sunset, was far more communicative than the eternal babble that sprung from his own wayward tongue.

You're not even looking at the view, Xan." "I'm looking at all I need to.

Cause when they're pissed at me, at least they know I'm there," Mackey said. "You spend enough time with a town that wants you to disappear, you realize that you can't do that when someone wants to slug you.

Anyway, it was just really important that I come out here for him, you know? So he's never afraid I'll leave him alone in an empty room.

Kimmy was suddenly there, shoulder to shoulder—the irritating heifer was actually taller than he was—and her voice, quiet in his ear, was surprisingly soothing.

THE BEST relationships are made of quiet times,

Worship at its best is something that engages not just the mind but the body.

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

The state of being frantic, overextended and distracted drives people away rather than drawing them in and inviting them to the refuge of your company.

His chronic physical ill health was paralleled by his constantly surprising moral strength. He would borrow money aloud but lend it with a whisper. In his presence everything became simple, clear, and aboveboard.

Then suddenly, standing in front of me, virtually stopping me, with that extraordinary way she had of calling me, the way you might call someone from room to room in an empty castle: 'André? André?...You will write a novel about me. I'm sure you will. Don't say you won't. Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us...

Parfois, il est vrai, le coeur veut crever de chagrin. Mais souvent aussi, le soir de préférence, je ne puis m'empêcher de penser qu'Ernie Levy, mort six millions de fois, est encore vivant, quelque part, je ne sais où... Hier, comme je tremblais de désespoir au milieu de la rue, cloué au sol, une goutte de pitié tomba d'en haut sur mon visage; mais il n'y avait nul souffle dans l'air, aucun nuage dans le ciel... il n'y avait qu'une présence.

Yo luzco y difumino tus aires, para que pasen a ser esencia trágica de los que ya me conocen, de los que me ven y ya no me olvidan. Para los muertos

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence.

if there is no feet at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

Nowhere. is.... Now Here

more than ever, she knew the only thing that really mattered was being with the ones you love.

A mass whose desperation made them seem like the feckless, and whose drab presence drained the classroom of all colours until even the white potties at the corner glinted like diamonds. I will never forgive Hitler for turning human beings into that.

We are human beings, not human doings. Every once in a while we need to stop and smell the roses, hear what is really being said, taste the essence of life, touch someone's heart and see life for what it truly is, a journey with rest areas.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.