Presence Quotes

“Life is similar to a bus ride.
The journey begins when we board the bus.
We meet people along our way of which some are strangers, some friends and some strangers yet to be friends.
There are stops at intervals and people board in.
At times some of these people make their presence felt, leave an impact through their grace and beauty on us fellow passengers while on other occasions they remain indifferent.
But then it is important for some people to make an exit, to get down and walk the paths they were destined to because if people always made an entrance and never left either for the better or worse, then we would feel suffocated and confused like those people in the bus, the purpose of the journey would lose its essence and the journey altogether would neither be worthwhile nor smooth.”
― Chirag Tulsiani

“Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes.”
― Mollie Marti

“Your true home is in the here and the now.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

“Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.”
― Amit Ray

“There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.”
― Jeff Buckley

“Your greatest path of influence is love.”
― Mollie Marti

“When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.”
― Elizabeth George, A Woman's High Calling: 10 Essentials for Godly Living

“The more I connect with my sensuality the more I experience God. As the wind blows through the curtains, that’s how sweet His presence is.”
― Lebo Grand

“Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both recognizes and demands recognition. I see you, or here, he said to her. In order for something to be handed over a hand must extend and a hand must receive. We must both be here in this world in this life in this place indicating the presence of.”
― Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

“And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?
If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrow
Will be another thunderstorm than if I hadn’t died.
Of course I know thunderstorms don’t fall because I see them,
But if I weren’t in the world,
The world would be different —
There would be me the less —
And the thunderstorm would fall on a different world and would be another thunderstorm.
No matter what happens, what’s falling is what’ll be falling when it falls.

(7/10/1930)”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

“The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.
The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Adam Nicolson has written of the 'powerful absence[s]' that remembered landscapes exert upon us, but they exist as powerful presences too, with which we maintain deep and abiding attachments. These, perhaps, are the landscapes in which we live the longest,warped though they are by time and abraded though they are by distance”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where it is. We have maps of its presence within and around galaxies throughout the universe. We even have stringent constraints on what it is not, but we have no clue what it is. And yes, its presence is overwhelming: for every one kilogram of ordinary matter made out of neutrons and protons and electrons, there are five kilograms of dark matter, made out of who-knows-what.”
― Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

“Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now when will we have peace and joy--tomorrow, or after tomorrow? What is presenting us from being happy right now?”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“When you've attained to your hidden within your apparent vice versa, know that you have reached Eternal Time, and Divine Presence. The Communion is in the Breath.”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R, The Sacred Key — Transcending Humanity

“A famous aphorism tells us, „The Sufi is the child of the moment“ (as-sufi ibn al-waqt). One of its meanings is that the true Sufi lives in the constant awareness that his self is nothing but what he is at the present moment. And since each present moment is unique, each moment of the self is unique. In some Sufi texts, each moment is called a nafas, a „breath.“ The Sufis are then called „the folk of the breaths“ (ahl al-anfas), because they live in full awareness of the uniqueness of the nafs at each nafas, each breath, each instant. (p. 55-56)”
― William C. Chittick, Sufism: A Beginner's Guide

“Transcendent, magical romance happens when you’re one hundred percent present for each other as #supersoul lovers.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed.
How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Yale tried to say some­thing, but didn’t know how to be­gin. It had to do with a walk he once took with Nico and Richard around the Lin­coln Park la­goon, the two of them shar­ing Richard’s Le­ica. It struck Yale that day how they both had a way of in­ter­act­ing with the world that was si­mul­ta­ne­ously self­ish and gen­er­ous—grab­bing at beauty and re­flect­ing beauty back. The benches and fire hy­drants and man­hole cov­ers Nico and Richard stopped to pho­to­graph were made more beau­ti­ful by their notic­ing. They were left more beau­ti­ful, once they walked away. By the end of the day, Yale found him­self see­ing things in frames, saw the way the light hit fence posts, wanted to lap up the rip­ples of sun on a record store win­dow. He said, “I get it, I do.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“You can’t have your presence
and eat it

Unlike cake”
― Sarah Thompson, Murmurations

“Realise deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“I am no longer afraid of what obedience will cost me because I have always been given something precious, pure, holy, and sacred in return. He’s given me Himself and His presence each time I have given myself away. What more could I ask for?”
― Tes Jahnig, The YES Life: Moving Bravely Forward

“In the silent embrace of nature’s vastness, we learn that the treasures of the heart come not from pursuit but from presence. The ocean whispers to us, teaching patience as a quiet dance of faith, where the gifts of life arrive in their own time.”
― An Marke

“We discover the worth of what is, only through what is no longer.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Hold me,
touch my soul
without words, without hands—
just linger here,
if only for a moment,
with your presence.”
― Sean Delaney

“True stillness is a form of presence that transcends motion,
a state so profound that even silence finds its own resonance.”
― Sean DeLaney

“She will simply cherish every moment she's allocated until there are no more.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“Sometimes I feel like I miss you when you're right in front of me.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story