#absence

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#absence #around #basic #beings #between

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#absence #confiscation #gold #gold standard #inflation

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#belief #illusion #illusions #itself

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#fighting #love #nothing #worth

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#compared #grief #happiness #hates #life

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#entire #nothing #thought #unless #unthinkable

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. ↗

— Freya Stark

#any #art #dose #family #family life

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ↗

— Karl Marx

#meaning #meaning of #opposition #peace #socialism

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. ↗

— Rollo May

#absence #ahead #capacity #despair #move