Presence Quotes
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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Hours later I knew for certain I had felt the presence of this choking, slaving smell before, sometime when I was very young, inside my sleep, but this does not occur to me at the time. I come back out into the main room. I stand among the pictures and the light. I decide there’s no reason to report this, that I should not have come here, that I feel older than I ever had all through my blood. I feel dizzy in the middle of the photographs of her, the mirrors, a silent catacomb of eyes. That’s when I realize I’m being recorded.
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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
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[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.
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I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
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The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
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How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
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I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.
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Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
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Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
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God's presence is all that matters.
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Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
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A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
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He got up and talked about what they ran and why they ran it. I was just amazed at his presence and his knowledge.
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Alone, without the looking-glass of another person’s presence, the mirrors of the imagination sometimes effect cunning distortions.
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What prompts you and me to keep going through the hard times of life? God’s presence. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing else.
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Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
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Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence.
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As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.
