Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.
Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
In 10 years of being together - 6 while dating and 4 in marriage - my wife has never once complained about my physical or mental absence in our relationship.
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
We will always miss Balasaheb, but I will work hard to ensure that his absence is not felt politically.
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.
Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.
The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.
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.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".
I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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