Top 100 Quotes About My Present Life
#1. What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
Ira Sachs
#2. In my present life from day to day, I attempt to improve my understanding of God by responding to Him in three basic ways: by moving outwards into positive action, by exercising my ability to choose positive thoughts, and by allowing myself to be drawn inwards to positive being.
A.A. World Services Inc.
#3. The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president
William Howard Taft
#4. I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life.
Sam Pink
#5. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones
#6. From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
George J. Mitchell
#7. I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#8. I was the silent and ever present figure in your life ... but you." I kissed the back of her hand softly and closed my eyes. "You've always been the meaning of mine.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#9. I wouldn't be able to get through this without you. The one good thing about all of this has been that you were brought into my life
Alison G. Bailey
#10. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?
Claire Contreras
#11. To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
Cameron Conaway
#12. My inner control freak had taken the day off ... I had descended from the mountain of the perfect, into the valley of the possible, and was now on the happy shaded trail, dappled with sunlight, of the present. It was the most wonderful walk of my life.
Elizabeth Bard
#13. And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him.
Katherine Applegate
#14. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.
Emily Murdoch
#15. Time is made of moments.
The present is today.
New day and new grace.
Today is my precious time on earth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
Claudia Rankine
#17. I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.
James Patterson
#18. I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your life trying to outrun it or you can stop running, turn around and look it inthe face. i've stared down my past, and now i'm moving on.I am more than my past.I am my future and it belings to me.
Lauren Blakely
#19. That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar ... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
Kamila Shamsie
#20. the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
Charles Dickens
#22. My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
Grover Norquist
#23. Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.
Alphonsus Rodriguez
#24. My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.
Alonzo King
#25. For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships ... Other islands fade as I brood upon them.
Chuma Nwokolo
#26. Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.
Michelle Bachelet
#27. You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place.
Mark Twain
#28. The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#29. It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that ... eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school. Some days I wake up and it's like I'm eight years old again. And I'm scared for my life, and I don't know if I'm going to be beaten up that day.
Laverne Cox
#30. When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.
Clarice Lispector
#31. I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.
Paulo Coelho
#32. As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.
Wayne Dyer
#33. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to Mother Earth.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#34. I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
Sarah Fielding
#35. Because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.
Dean Koontz
#36. If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#37. I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine
B.A. Paris
#38. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.
Steve Maraboli
#39. This present world is a perfectly safe place for us to be." That certainly is what Jesus, and the Bible as a whole, has to say to us. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Ps 23).
Dallas Willard
#40. When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
John Phillips Marquand
#41. I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one.
Sergio Aguero
#42. Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life ... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.
Raymond E. Feist
#43. At this point in my life I am just about enjoying my free time and my downtime and that's what is about for us. My job is about making your job easier. I take a lot of pride in the quality of what I present, especially in 'Money Saving Meals.'
Sandra Lee
#44. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#45. What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.
Charles Stross
#46. In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with
uncertainty, I learned to make peace with the present by unknowingly
breaking love lines to the past. Growing up in a landscape of
improvised dreams and abstract national longings, everything felt
temporary to me.
Susan Abulhawa
#47. I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.
Robert Muller
#48. I like to compare my mental stress capacity to a dinner plate. Most people have moderate amounts of stress in their life, like a nice balanced meal. The food represents different stresses that occur in our lives, past and present.
L.K. Elliott
#49. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.
Elizabeth Kim
#50. Moving on has allowed me to know who I am and to be present in all that I do. I take this forward in my work and in my personal relationships. It is a powerful program and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to move on with their life.
Lou Reed
#51. An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of night
Warmth of my life
Jacques Prevert
#52. I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.
Dhani Jones
#53. What I do is I take action because I value the position I have, the career I have, the life I live, the people I interact with, my fanbase, my friends, however you want to say that. I value those relationships and I use the opportunities they present to me.
Mike Vallely
#54. I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
Albert Camus
#55. The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.
Aaron Rodgers
#56. My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
Jerry Yang
#57. Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.
Evelyn Waugh
#58. So many people from my past taught me that it's not everyone that's in my life wants to see me achieve my goals and be great, but I thank God they're no longer in my life because I moved on a long time ago, welcome to my present.
Werley Nortreus
#61. Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions.
Krista Tippett
#62. I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Susan Sarandon
#63. There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.
Rachel McAdams
#65. I've spent most of my life perfecting the craft of living history. I have no practice at living in the present.
Leila Sales
#66. Being this side of 40 feels like what I should have felt being this side of 25: in my body, in my heart, happy with my life, and OK with whatever bumps in the road present themselves.
Jennifer Aniston
#67. What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.
Jen Calonita
#68. In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.
Billy Graham
#69. I can't imagine a without her. Even while we're apart, she's still so present in my life.
Laurelin Paige
#70. Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
Anne Lamott
#71. The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.
Nicholas Sparks
#72. I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life
Manu
#73. My children to enjoy life, to value themselves, to be risk takers, to become self-reliant, to be free from stress and anxiety, to have peaceful lives, to celebrate their present moments, to experience a lifetime of wellness, to
Wayne W. Dyer
#74. I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.
Woody Allen
#75. I'd like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that's the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.
Gregoire Delacourt
#76. Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today.
Truth Devour
#77. Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.
Lili'uokalani
#78. Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
Tim O'Brien
#79. My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity - home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines
James Joyce
#80. I don't think we ever really live in the present; instead, we're either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That's where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.
Jonathan Hull
#81. I would like to have it for my whole life. You will, the other part of him said. You will. You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.
Ernest Hemingway,
#82. The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
Jorge Luis Borges
#83. A truce to philosophy! - Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.
Mary Shelley
#84. I feel like every present moment is the moment I was waiting and preparing for my whole life.
Debasish Mridha
#85. There have been such strange unexpected changes in my life during these last two years, that I feel more than ever that it is not worth while to calculate too closely what I should do if any future event took place. I try to think only upon the present.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#86. I am rejoiced at my fate. I would rather be in my present situation than be elected to a seat in Congress for life. Do not be uneasy about me, I am with my friends ... Farewell, David Crockett. His
Bill O'Reilly
#87. My past is my wisdom to use today ... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver
#88. All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
Paulo Coelho
#89. ...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.
JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play!
Mikhail Tal
#90. Once my brother was very angry on my parents and told them "You should have killed me when I was a child"
Interestingly I was present and told him "I don't think it is still too late" and I have never heard him complaining about life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#91. Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
Ian McKellen
#92. The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
Soren Kierkegaard
#93. It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.
George Crook
#94. 8He is ever present with me; at all times He goes before me. I will not live in fear or abandon my calling because He stands at my right hand. 9This is a good life - my heart is glad, my soul is full of joy, and my body is at rest. Who could want for more?
Anonymous
#95. All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.
Kathleen Rooney
#96. All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today
Phoebe Cary
#97. I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#98. I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.
China Forbes
#99. In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.
Dani Shapiro
#100. I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.
Isabel Allende
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