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Present Quotes by Anne Lamott
- I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
- If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
- I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we…
- As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive…
- But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger…
- Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at…
- 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…
- I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time.…
- I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida