“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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American author and cartoonist 1933

Sarah Kane book Crave

Source: Crave

“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997), p. 76

“Surely you can change your world if you work at it. (…) a world of which you are the only source and ground is fully within your power to change. What is created can always be dissolved and re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

Change
Source: "I am That." P.42

“To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 126
Context: In life, what more can you ask for than to be real? To fulfill one’s potential instead of wasting energy on [attempting to] actualize one’s dissipating image, which is not real and an expenditure of one’s vital energy. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

“Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Garden that I Love (1905)

“Now Everybody has some secret goals in life… Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

“To force a change sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth – rather than what your employer is paying you. We’re not scared. To move the women’s game ahead we need to do what’s necessary. I feel other national teams are looking at us for that guidance.”

Alex Morgan (1989) American soccer player

"Alex Morgan: ‘If Fifa start respecting the women’s game more, others will follow’" https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/16/alex-morgan-us-soccer-football-fifa-lyon-women-equality (Janaury 17, 2017)

“Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”

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