Quotes of: Present-life Keyword

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

David Whyte

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Hale White

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Look beyond the present circumstances, imagine a brighter future.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

My Life

At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

The Past Never Ends

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

real life nightmares kills me as an old man trying to escape from bad guilty memories who basically lives in the present.

Sil Vereecken

Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose.

Lee Monroe

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

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Juliette Binoche

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Muhammad Iqbal

My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.

Peter Agre

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Varley O'Connor

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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...

Tommy Lee Jones

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

Anne Lamott