Quotes About Presence

God with us.

presence of the great light, center of all being,

In the presence of an overwhelming sincerity on the part of the disinherited, the dominant themselves are caught with no defense [...] They are thrown back upon themselves for their rating.

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

Of course, they hadn't really been happier at all. But they 'd been days, and they'd had Sarah in them, and that was near enough.

As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late

It makes no sense to hurry up, and so mess up, what I am doing now in order to get started on what I plan to do next. Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

But God will live in our midst only as the King, nothing less.

I think as a writer you always have to be 'present' in what you write.

He keeps us waiting rather than wishing for him. I feel it a matter of perfect indifference whether he arrives at any moment or not at all." — Lady Harriet Cavendish of George Beau Brummell

My name is Kilimanjaro West," he said, and something in the way he spoke that name made the crowded 'lectrovan fall electrically quiet. "Pleased to meet you all.

Imagine the beams of the Panversal Radiance striking the earth as you've been taught in Contemplation and Presence Class.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.

My philosophy is this: Do not live for the day – that would be materialistic – but treasure the day. Most of us live on the skin, on the surface, without realising how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

I showed up

BEST FRIENDS are like Stars... You don't always see Them, but you know they are always there

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.