"To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends."

-- Phil Callaway

#Iphone Quotes #Moments Quotes #Absent Quotes

“It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.”
“My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.”
“I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.”

Source : "John Banville: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.
“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.”

Source : Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK
“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”
“You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.”

Source : "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.
“All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.”

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