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Quotes About Presence

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.
~ Albert Einstein
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.
~ Sherry Argov
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
~ Esther Williams
There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
~ F. Murray Abraham
We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
~ David Riesman
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
~ George R. R. Martin
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there
~ Terence McKenna
El mundo está lleno de libros. Algunos son hermosos. Algunos llegan a justificar la presencia del hombre sobre la tierra. Incluso los hay que son verdaderamente grandes, genuinamente libres, noblemente generosos. Amamos a estos libros. Nunca a las maniobras que se esconden tras ellos. Son hermosos sus mensajes. Nunca las pugnas a que se llegó para imponerlos.
~ Terenci Moix
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
~ Teresa of Avila
For though we know quite well that God is present in all that we do, our nature is such that it makes us lose sight of the fact; but when this favour is granted it can no longer do so, for the Lord, who is near at hand, awakens it. And even the favours aforementioned occur much more commonly, as the soul experiences a vivid and almost constant love for Him whom it sees or knows to be at its side.
~ Teresa of Avila
Do you suppose, daughters, that He is alone when He comes to us? Do you not see that His most holy Son says: "Who art in the Heavens"? Surely such a King would not be abandoned by His courtiers. They stay with Him and pray to Him on our behalf and for our welfare, for they are full of charity.
~ Teresa of Avila
The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he
~ Teresa of Avila
God is not only the most high, he is also the all-near as well. Teresa's discovery of the presence of God within every soul came in the light of a contemplative grace.
~ Teresa of Avila
Probably, ghosts are allergic to us. Our uproarious Breathing & ruckus. Our eruptions, our disregard For dust.
~ Terrance Hayes
The good news is that the love is still there. The bad news is that it's stored in parts of your brain, body, and nervous system that, in those flash moments, you no longer inhabit.
~ Terrence Real
In your close relationships, urgency is your enemy, and breath is your friend.
~ Terrence Real
The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of you, and willing to move if what you're doing isn't working.
~ Terrence Real
Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.
~ Terri Guillemets
Whenever I see sunbeams coming through clouds, it always looks to me like God shining himself down onto us. The thing about sunbeams is they're always there even though we can't always see them. Same with God.
~ Terri Guillemets
We can never escape God's lovely essence.
~ Terri Guillemets
Soul shadows you everywhere.
~ Terri Guillemets