Absence Quotes

• The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Motivational
  • Communicate
  • Keys

• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Direct
  • Victim
  • Unconscious

• I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it's partial intervention. And that doesn't really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Agree

• Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

  

  Herodotus
  • Adversity
  • Qualities
  • Absence

• In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Friend
  • Presence
  • Deeds

• If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Taken
  • Needs
  • Consciousness

• You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Afraid
  • Hunger
  • Acknowledge

• I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.

  

  William Brinkley
  • People
  • Character
  • Personality

• If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Reason
  • Focused
  • Spending

• Patience is the absence of expectation.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Expectations
  • Absence

• I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Choose
  • Absence
  • Anonymity

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