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Quotes About Presence

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.
~ George Harrison
I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.
~ Louie Giglio
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.
~ Doug Cooper, Outside In
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
~ Albert Camus, The Stranger
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
~ Garrison Keillor
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
~ G.K. Chesterton
And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.
~ Pope Francis
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~ A.A. Milne
Quality requires your Presence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.
~ Rumi
Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
~ Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.
~ Stefan Fatsis
The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
~ Richard Rohr
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.
~ Sophy Burnham
Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
~ Marcel Proust
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
~ Wayne Dyer
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
~ Frederick Salomon Perls
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
~ Anita Roddick