#presence

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#death #dramatic #even #exactly #guess

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. ↗

— David Seabury

#cannot #comes #control #deny #disappears

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#behold #christ #die #dread #exalt

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#been #call #chris #chris rock #i

Be in your own skin, as an act of self-loving. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#presence #self-loving #love

We convince by our presence. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#convince #our #presence