Quotes About Presence

momento en que tomaron asiento en unas sillas

For several minutes Mary stood stock still on the stage, clad in the color of dried blood:

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

I feel entirely content, sitting here with you.

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Loved ones leave us and we go on—ghosts or no ghosts, my way or Molly's, we still see them. As Matthew and I knew, the dead don't entirely go away—not if you see them on the subway, or in your heart.

Ora sono qui. Preghiamo insieme. Dio ti aiuta." ("Now I'm here. Let's pray together. God will help you.")

trepid visitors and often announced their presence hours before the knock on the door. "Someone for Grandma," he'd say. Focusing, always focusing. "She's about twenty-four. Or maybe fourteen. She has a blue knapsack. She has an orange with her but I don't think she's going to

No estoy aquí, que soy tu madre?

Am I not here, for I am your mother?

There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify its presence.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. OSCAR WILDE

I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

Where the earth is, we are.

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.