Quotes About Presence

In creating a "hold upon nearness" the poetic word creates a place where we can stand for a while, allowing us to bear witness to our own being.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

But all God's angels come to us disguised...

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

His absence has only made him more present.

I couldn't even picture Mavis's face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her forehead, but there was nothing there.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty—a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room.

You know, sometimes there's a light at the table, like a visible halo, and you're it, you know? You're the light?

Percebi que me imaginara, durante anos, em outro local mas que, na realidade, permaneci lá o tempo inteiro

it's our task to immerse ourselves...while keeping eyes and hearts open...

She was a masterpeace of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beatiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty – a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room.

Dear Jesus, he said, pressing thumb and forefinger into his tightly shut eyes. What a privilege it is to stand before you this day! What a blessing to pray with You! Let us be joyful, joyful, in Your presence! What's he talking about? thought Harriet, dazed. Her mosquito bites itched, but she didn't dare scratch them. Through half-closed eyes, she stared at her feet.

Yet even in death, my dad was ineradicable, no matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture– for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk, in my darting sideways glance as I left the restaurant with Hobie, the very set of my head recalling his old, preening habit of checking himself out in any mirror-like surface.

and there she was, turning and smiling at me, at me! and there were way too many people in the theater because it was the seven o'clock show, way more people than I was comfortable with my generalized anxiety and hatred of crowded places and more people trickling in even after the show had started but I didn't care, it could have been a foxhole in the Somme being shelled by the Germans and all that mattered was her next to me in the dark, her arm beside mine.

And now here she was again, like an apparition, drinking red wine from a plastic cup and calling me by name.

You could grasp it in an instant, you could live in it forever.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Here tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears---everything, in delicate vibration.

Onunla [kedimle] beraber olmak için oturuyorum, bu kendimi yavaÅŸlatmam, telaÅŸ ve endiÅŸeleri defetmem anlam?na geliyor. Bunu yap?nca -onun da keyifli olmas?, bir yerinin aÄŸr?mamas? veya huzursuz olmamamas? gerek - ona eriÅŸmek isteÄŸimin fark?nda olduÄŸunu bana incelikle belli ediyor. Kediye eriÅŸmek, kedinin özüne, onun en iyi yönlerine insan ve kedi, bizi neler ay?r?yorsa onlar? aÅŸmaya çal???yoruz.

Secondo me, a farti ricordare qualcosa, di importante o meno, è il fatto che in quel momento eri particolarmente vigile, attento. Per la maggior parte del tempo viviamo in una sorta di trance, non facciamo caso a niente.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still...

Lucent and delicate, Drama entered, mincing like a cat.