Peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear. - Ursula Franklin
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief. - Alison Bechdel
The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one. - Hasse Jerner
In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice. - Joan Ambu
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence - Mantra
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. - Ambrose Bierce
Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Absence makes the bloody penis wander. ~ Heartbreak's A Bitch! - S.M Phillips
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. - Jane Addams
Health is not simply the absence of sickness. - Hannah Green
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy. - Joycelyn Elders
Gratitude does not mean the absence of solitude, but the presence of a positive attitude in spite of. - Gift Gugu Mona
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. - W.S. Merwin
Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world. - Max Strom
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. - Dalai Lama XIV
Love has no value in the absence of truth. - C.J. Anderson
Peace is not the absence of poverty But the presence of love for beauty - Debasish Mridha
A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model. - Israelmore Ayivor
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence. - Criss Jami
Your absence in my life is testing me every second. It has gifted me incompleteness, pain, and hope. - Rohit Sharma
Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love. - Debasish Mridha
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. - Sextus Propertius
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. - Cicero
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher. - Vironika Tugaleva
Hope is an emotional state in the absence of information. - John Iadarola
Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos. - Debasish Mridha
Peace is not the absence of agonyBut the presence of joy of harmony - Debasish Mridha
A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. - Hilary Mantel
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors - Arthur W. Pink
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. - Coco J. Ginger
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care. - Debasish Mridha
Tonight, It's not about You, Tonight It's about Me,It's about How Your absence, troubles me,It's about How i hide all of this Hurt .Tonight it's not about Love, Tonight it's about separations,it's about How i write, to remember You,it's about How i remember You, through all of Myself . - Syed Murtaza Haroon
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity? - Bruce Sterling
Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the ‘religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)’, and where kashays are present, lies the ‘relative religion’! - Dada Bhagwan
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. - Nelson Mandela
You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life. - Richard Brostoff
when the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence. - Upasana Banerjee
The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission - Darnell Lamont Walker
Perception is the reality in the absence of fact. - Pieter BF Swart
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. - Peter Minard
Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony. - Debasish Mridha
Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people. - M.F. Moonzajer
Love is the absence of judgment. - Dalai Lama XIV
I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness. - Augusten Burroughs
The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness. - VicDo
The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. - Jean Paul Richter
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Being fearless is not in the absence of fear; it's just about fearing less. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air. - Kate Fagan
Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire. - E.M.Bounds
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation]. - Dada Bhagwan
It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope. - Saim Cheeda
Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference. - Nelson Mandela
Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence. - Thomas McFarland
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Democracy could be worthless and counterproductive in the absence of sound moral leadership! - Lennox Lampkin
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. - Orson Welles
There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him. - C. JoyBell C.
Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is "timing"it waits on the right time to act,for the right principlesand in the right way. - Fulton J. Sheen
To say that my existence is entirely inconsequential is to utterly ignore the amazing reality that life is a masterful story penned by a brilliant God who wrote me into the story in such a way that my absence would literally diminish the whole of the story. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. - Anaïs Nin
Perception is reality in the absence of fact - Pieter BF Swart
Peace is not merely the absence of war or conflict but the presence of tranquility, harmony and love. - Debasish Mridha
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. - Nelson Mandela
The inclusion of dreams is the only viable supplement to the absence of more favourable outcomes. - Benjamin Meadows
My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
In the absence of light, you find the brightest parts of you. - Elvis Bittner
Freedom is the absence of influence. - Hugo Embleton-Black
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain. - Sunday Adelaja
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. - Dorothy Thompson
It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices. - Susan Sontag
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. - Helen Keller
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. - Michael Crichton
Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear. - Ursula Franklin
Stupidity is not the absence of knowledge, its more of the misuse of knowledge. - Reinhard Otieno
Peace is not the absence of warbut the presence of love and care - Debasish Mridha
Peace is not the absence of intolerance Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance. - Debasish Mridha
The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance. - Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space. - Graham Greene
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare! - Manuela George-Izunwa
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. - Neal A. Maxwell
The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success - Sunday Adelaja
Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can do that. - Debasish Mridha
Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. - Harrison Ford
A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere. - Ken Poirot
Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. - Michel Houellebecq
When u dont value the tears shed in your absence , you dont deserve the smile which begets the fragrance in life . - Sucher chaturvedi
Happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome. - Ane Krstevska
LIVE TO LOVE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITH YOULIVE TO LEARN TO EARN YOUR LIVINGLIVE TO MAKE YOUR PRESENCE FELT IN SPITE OF YOUR ABSENCE LEARN TO FIGHT IN SPITE OF OBSTACLES DO NOT FORGET JUST LIVING DO NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO THE WORLD - Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered. - Ernst Jünger
Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. - Terence McKenna
This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world. - Shaun Hick
Awareness is absence of seaking. - Bert McCoy
There lies a faith in the absence of control. - Kylie Maughan
Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it. - M.F. Moonzajer
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. - Unknown
The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery. - Sunday Adelaja
Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence) - Erik Pevernagie
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. - Thomas Paine
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. - Jawaharlal Nehru
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away. - James Thomson
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation. - Stefan Molyneux
Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become. - Robert Fanney
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. - Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. - Fulton J. Sheen
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - Colette
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell
Fear is not the absence of Faith but the Silence of Faith. - Evans Biya
Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony. - Debasish Mridha
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. - Charles M. Schulz
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding. - Walter Wink
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. - Anais Nin
A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. - C. JoyBell C.
Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance.Ugly is not the absence of beauty.Uglyis the inability to identify it.The inability to be surprised by it.It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it.Beauty is simplythe manifestation oflove. - Kamand Kojouri
Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician. - Stendhal
I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing. - Dominic Riccitello
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to. - Mamur Mustapha
In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation! - Jaeda DeWalt
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling. - J.K. Rowling
Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall. - Doug Fetherling
Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I miss you with the very edge of my skin.It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting. - Valentina Cano
I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it. - Charlotte Eriksson
Conspicuous by its absence. - John Russell
Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit - Aloysius Jnr
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless - Luke Edison
Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care. - Debasish Mridha
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss. - Robert J. Wiersema
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence! - Stephen Richards
Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel - Rachel Van Dyken
Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance - Julian Assange
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? - Robert Louis Stevenson
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. - Dalai Lama XIV
Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever. - Emma Brynstein
Peace is not the absence of war,but the presence of love and care.Peace is not the absence of agony,but the presence of joy of harmony.Peace is not the absence of poverty,but the presence of love for beauty.Peace is not the absence of intolerance. Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance. - Debasish Mridha
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character. - Baruch Spinoza
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. - Pablo Neruda
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man. - Charles M. Blow
At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic. - Jay Samit
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future. - M. Scott Peck
Mama, I love you and miss you so very much. The absence of of your physical presence propels me further into understanding the spirit. I am inspired to be aware and mindful of everything around me because there-- you exist, always speaking to me and always with me. - Kayko Tamaki
Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember. - Stephen King
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Sagan
Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss. - Dada Bhagwan
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. - Mike MacDonald
All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand. - Terry Darlington
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. - Havelock Ellis
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. - Terence McKenna
If your absence doesn't motivate them to do better, then your presence never will. - Stephan Labossiere
Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss. - Dada Bhagwan
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality - Maggie MacLure
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. - Orson Welles
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. - Robert Heinlein
Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return. - Steven Aitchison
Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. - Shannon L. Alder
Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes life knocks you down, but all you need to do is to get up because happiness isn’t in the absence of problems but the strength to overcome. - Ane Krstevska
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller
Solitude: sweet absence of faces. - Milan Kundera
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. - Charles de Montesquieu
Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation). - Dada Bhagwan
Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway. - Jeanette Coron
Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The absence of love is the most abject pain.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Tennyson
I really can't stress this enough. If you want to make an impact, don't simply sit idly by and 'hope' for courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision made in determining what is more important than fear. - M.B. Dallocchio
I dote on his very absence. - William Shakespeare
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
He that fears your presence will hate you absence. - Thomas Fuller
Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. - Steve Allen
But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, for thoseWho love as we do. Speed thee well! - William Wordsworth
Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion. - Sameh Elsayed
It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up. - Anne D. LeClaire
Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal. - Kishore Bansal
Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can. - Debasish Mridha
Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person - Constance Friday
An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. - Jonathan Franzen
One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn’t the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. - J.W. Lord
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound... - Tom Stoppard
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear. - Paulo Coelho
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. - Alcibiades
Tears is the voice of heart in pain, in absence of feelings one don't care what you share. - Kishore Bansal
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it’s like missing water. Every day, you notice the person’s absence more. - Anne Tyler