Richard Stengel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
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.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

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