Quotes About Presence

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.

Don't miss your life.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.