Quotes About Presence

Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)

The little things are most worthwhile- a quiet word, a look, a smile.

Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?

I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.

They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

Some words were left unsaid Oh Layla, as you slept peacefully in my arms, and the stars kept on peeping into the room to glance at your smile!

Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.

While talking to you I always get a Little Smile on my face that I never noticed

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. Pooh! he whispered. Yes, Piglet? Nothing, said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. I just wanted to be sure of you.

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

When will you begin to exist then? When will you begin to be here, to live? Regardless

You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything- your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that.

even when there's no interest on either side one's coordination completely disappears in the presence of beauty (Abigail's daughter, Jen)

Those first days his daughter, Sally, and I took twelve-hour shifts at the hospital, sitting in a chair next to his bed, listening to the beeping of monitors in the ICU. We were afraid to leave him. It was as if we were trying to hatch an egg, keeping him warm with our presence, and we didn't want him to wake without a familiar face nearby.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man." God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

To be a Jew is to renounce allegiance to false gods; to be sensitive to God's infinite stake in every finite situation; to bear witness to His presence in the hours of His concealment; to remember that the world is unredeemed. We are born to be an answer to His question.

God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.