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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Know that darkness is merely the absence of light.
You can be the small candle that defeats the vast darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Security is not the absence of danger,
but the presence of God,
no matter what the danger.
- Anonymous
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
The child in me could not die as it should have died,
because according too legends it must find its father again.
The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence
the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized,
and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human,
as man who created a child and then, by his absence,
left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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