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Quotes About Presence

Plus elle disparait plus elle apparait. [The more she disappears the more she appears.]
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A tua presença é qualquer coisa como a luz e a vida E eu sinto que em meu gesto existe o teu gesto e em minha voz a tua voz.
~ Vinicius de Moraes
Receiving Communion means entering into communion with Jesus Christ. ... What is given us here is not a piece of a body, not a thing, but him, the Resurrected one himself — the person who shares himself with us in love. ... This means that receiving Communion is always a personal act. GOD IS NEAR US, P. 81
~ Unknown
I contemplated her, I was remembering her in this present, I had her beside me from last moment to last moment. When you are in love you are always on a railway platform.
~ Violette Leduc
Le atemorizaban las presencias porque podían fundirse en ausencia
~ Violette Leduc
Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)
~ Virgil
To see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. To say what I feel and think instead of what I should. To feel what I feel instead of what I ought. To ask for what I want instead of always waiting for permission. To take risks on my behalf, instead of choosing to be safe and not rock the boat.
~ Virginia Satir
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.
~ Virginia Satir
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
~ Virginia Woolf
La peur est là, on ne la voit pas, on ne la sent pas, on peut la sentir sur les routes la nuit. C'est la dame blanche.
~ Virginie Despentes
Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.
~ Unknown
I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am still certain that if she had been, I'd have grown up whole inside. "Imagine," I say to Leonard. "She's so old and she can still do this to me." "It's not how old she is that's remarkable," he says. "It's how old you are.
~ Vivian Gornick
Dersú –le dije–, te echaba de menos. En cuanto no estás, siento que falta algo.
~ Unknown
Eu1 - sinele inventat, umplut cu concepte si asteptari despre bine si rau, despre ce trebuie facut, despre ce e de dorit si ce nu. Eu2 - cel care joaca
~ Unknown
I did not, but i saw a young girl, and she had the walk of a queen.
~ W. B. Yeats
The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the whole world.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.
~ W. D. Richter
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
~ W. H. Auden
What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?
~ W. H. Davies
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
~ W. H. Davies
Normality for a human being is when God can be seen by anything and everything which that person does and says and is.
~ W. Ian Thomas
God is immanent and all-pervading This is not too surprising when we remember that the Gurus were mystics and that the vision of such people is one that finds the presence of God in every experience and object. They also shared with many Hindus the belief that the atman, or jot (divine spark) or individual soul, is one with the Primal Soul, Brahman, though Sikhs tend not to use this particular term.
~ Unknown
The One who created the world pervades it. Do not look for the True One far away. Recognize the Word [the Divine Spirit] dwelling in every heart.
~ Unknown