Present Life Quotes
42 quotes by 38 authors
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His…
— Gregory Palamas
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here…
— Carl Jung
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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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…
— Billy Graham
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Gautama Buddha
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The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own…
— Augustus Toplady
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,…
— N. T. Wright
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All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important…
— Anton Chekhov
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For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.
— Randy Alcorn
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
— William Wilberforce
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The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks…
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
— Thomas Dreier
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Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
— Charles Fletcher Dole
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Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
— Paule Marshall
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...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were…
— John Cassian
Who Wrote These Present Life Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 42 Present Life Quotes, led by these top contributors: