Julian Baggini Quotes

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

I feel like it's easy to get lost in your own world and get distracted, and sometimes seeing things from different perspectives helps you appreciate your life a little bit more.

Sometimes you need a humbling experience to think about a few things.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to be thankful you're alive.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

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.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.