Quotes of: Present-life Keyword

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

Of Christmas Present

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Of Christmas Present

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Crime and Punishment

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Don Quixote

Entre el deseo y la nostalgia, hay un punto que se llama el presente.

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

See with your mind, Speak with your heart, Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.

Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Eight Theories of Religion

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

The Elephant Tree

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Family Happiness

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

A Familiar Rain

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

Black Art

A brick could be dropped on your mother-in-law’s head from the height of 66.6 feet. You know, as a going away present. 


A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A long-standing commitment to living in the present—because screw the past. She was a done deal. And screw the future cuz she was a fickle bitch.

The Backup Boyfriend

The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.

The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence

You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.

A Beautiful Lie

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

The Book of Simple Human Truths