Quotes About Presence

You can put your strength down. I'm sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don't need to say anything.

Human love is greater than divine love…divine love is at worst an illusion, at best a dream for some imaginary future time. Human love is here and now.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.

whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very "being" can affect the people who live with us or work with us. The effect on them is something they cannot avoid. We should have thoughtfulness concerning our responsibility in this area.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The landscape conveys an impression of absolute permanence. It is not hostile. It is simply there - untouched, silent and complete. It is very lonely, yet the absence of all human traces gives you the feeling you understand this land and can take your place in it.

The room is full of you! — As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something in the air, intangible, yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick!—

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

Si ahora están en silencio, si ahora en ese silencio están interrogándose, si no quiebran ese silencio en el que están interrogandose con una sonrisa muda, es porque nada los retiene allí salvo eso, salvo estar sencillamente el uno frente al otro, dejando pasar el tiempo sin más objeto que tenerse cerca, y eso es lo bello de estar en silencio interrogándose

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your shoes for a while, unzip your fly, piss hearty, dig your toes in the hot sand, feel that raw and rugged earth, split a couple of big toenails, draw blood! Why not?

Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs, look around; throw away those goddamned idiotic cameras! For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare?

Don't write if you can talk, don't talk if you can nod your head, don't nod your head if you don't have to.

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.

There shall be no night there.

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole.

It's not what you eat but who you are when you eat it.

Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

God hides things by putting them all around us.