Presence Quotes

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

Best, Keep, Company

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

God, Power, Emotional

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, Wisdom, Jealous

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

Work, Great, Art

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen

Good, Thankful, Thoughts

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Person, After

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Rather

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Love, Nothing, Sometimes

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Give, Same

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong

Love, Loneliness, Human

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Great, Sorry, Political

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Character, Mind

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller

Love, Absence, Sharpens

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Christopher Columbus

Enjoy, Made, Whole

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas Merton

God, Courage, Him

We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

Idea, Mass, Critical

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
Deepak Chopra

Around, Matter, Situation

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal

God, Justice, Nothing

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

Trust, Few, Equal

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David Bowie

Life, Mind, Cannot

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
Robert M. Pirsig

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
P. J. O'Rourke

Long, Often, Makes

Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
James Allen

Beautiful, Nothing, Within

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell

Mind, Metal, Native

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Clouds, Mountains, Eternity

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo

Away, Leave, Days

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

Children, Presents

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Wynton Marsalis

Time, Money, Down

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