Quotes About Presence

Joy comes from the Lord who lives within us,not from what's happening around us.

Live in the moment. Forget the past and don't concern yourself with the future.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment

The most amazing moments of my life have never required a spoken word!

Don't worry about the past and the future. This moment needs your attention, this is where your life exists.

I will wait for you among the shades

He does not mean it does not hurt. He does not mean we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

Even in her pain, she commanded the room, drawing all the light to herself, leeching the world around her pale as mushrooms.

I heard you were here." A clear voice like ice-melted streams.

Nuestros muertos acuden en pos de su venganza sin considerar la presencia de testigos.

I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am conforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

But there was something else, less easy to name. A loss, or lessening, that I feared her presence might bring.

The presence of the other boys did not comfort me; our dead come for their vengeance regardless of witnesses

Non avevo altare, ma non ne avevo bisogno: ogni luogo in cui mi trovavo era il mio tempio.

Lo riconoscerei anche solo dal tocco, dal profumo; lo riconoscerei anche se fossi cieco, dal modo in cui respira, da come i suoi piedi sferzano la terra. Lo riconoscerei anche nella morte, anche alla fine del mondo.

Je le reconnaîtrais rien qu'au toucher, ou à son odeur, je le reconnaîtrais si j'étais aveugle, aux seuls bruits de sa respirations et de ses pas martelant le sol. Je le reconnaîtrais dans la mort, à la fin du monde.

What I desire will come to pass. There is no mitigation." That voice again, like shearing metal. I had stood in the presence of great gods before: my father and grandfather, Hermes, Apollo. Yet her gaze pierced me as theirs had not. Odysseus had said once she was like a blade honed to a hair's fineness, so delicate you would not even know you had been cut, while beat by beat your blood was emptying on the floor.

There are too many of them,' he said. 'It's simpler if they just remember me.

He says, it will be all right. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

Perhaps most remarkable was his unself-consciousness

His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore. His skin was the color of just-pressed olive oil, and smooth as polished wood, without scabs and blemishes that covered the rest of us.

A silence, in which I felt him moving deep among his memories.

mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

De pronto, todos recordamos haber oído hablar de su piel dorada y sus ojos negros y centelleantes como la obsidiana que trocábamos por nuestras olivas. Y en ese momento, ella valió más que todos los presentes apilados en el centro, y aún más, ella valía más que nuestras vidas