Quotes About Presence

Why did you come back?" she asked. "I never left.

As he stammered to give his answer, he reflected that time was never a given, love was never to be taken for granted, and some gifts could not be wrapped and put under a tree.

honey, I am that good. I know what you want, and I can give it to you. Anytime you want it. Anytime I want it. That's why you want to be here with me

I'm here for you as long as you want me.

No matter how long gone, you'll always be here. A heartbeat close. A whisper's near.

Are you holding on to me because you think I'm going to disappear?

One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

I had an overwhelming urge to close my eyes in company. I think the girls were terrified of this. "What's he always sitting with his eyes closed for?

Be in love with your life every minute of it.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or anything. I just feel like my life is better without it.

'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

I feel like people with their camera phones and Twitter and Facebook, this kind of question like, 'How can I be present and also document my presence or document what I'm doing?' is something that's always on my mind, even when I'm not working as a filmmaker.

I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it!

I've always been attracted to the 'don't follow the rules' type of girl, the rocker girl. I've always been attracted to somebody who you can lose yourself in the moment with. You can hang out with her, and it's like you're the only two people in the room.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.