When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Tags: attention gratitude presence taking for granted Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
More quotations from Cynthia Ozick I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “presence” You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. —Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You More about this quote Tags: now presence change loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: humanity presence relationship compassion equality darkness healer wounded similarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life. —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: feeling mind presence desire nonattachment spaciousness witness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence…being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: life silence gratitude presence knowledge man will art seeing heart good faith tears goodbye Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: love presence absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. —Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You More about this quote Tags: now presence change loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: humanity presence relationship compassion equality darkness healer wounded similarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life. —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: feeling mind presence desire nonattachment spaciousness witness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence…being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: life silence gratitude presence knowledge man will art seeing heart good faith tears goodbye Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: love presence absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email