Quotes About Presence

But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

I don't think anything can stay, he tells me. Good or bad. So I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

I wondered: Did mom and Darren hurt us more by what they did or by what they didn't do? Which wounds us more-the hostile presence or the absent kindness?

Ariel, look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always in your heart.

I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I couldn't turn it off, but I could forget to turn it on. Gradually, the columns began to tip. I lost track of keeping track. In order to let us be, I let myself be.

That's not what it means, you told me. And anyway don't you feel naked now? You fell quiet, gestured for me to listen. The sound of the woods, the feel of the air. ... The sky, so present. And you, watching me take it all in. Naked to the world, the world naked to us.

Twenty feet away. Even in the crowded hallway,there is something in her that radiates out to me

I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say -A

I try to tamp them down, but they're not that easy to contain. Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.

I don't want to be anywhere else, with anyone else. I don't want to be anyone else. I just want this, which is what I have.

And the way he looks at me-it's like he's finally realized how real I am, how here I am. What I've just said isn't worth that. Which means I must be worth that.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do. I

I notice you. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

Bycie w odpowiednim miejscu w odpowiednim czasie i wsparcie t? obecno?ci? drugiego cz?owieka to najlepsze, co mo?emy robi? dla siebie nawzajem.

No necesitamos hablar para ser conscientes de la presencia del otro.

doubt lingers around anticipation like bees hover around flowers. [...] the best antidote for doubt is presence.

I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to her, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to her. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be.

The story illustrates that although we are often unaware of God's presence or of the intricacies of His plan, He nevertheless is present and has a plan, and our ignorance of it doesn't make it any less real.

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

you keep your eye on the donut not the hole.