“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
Variant: I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.
Source: Woman To Woman: Candid Conversations From Me To You
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Context: So what shall I make of the voice that spoke to me recently as I was scuttling around getting ready for yet another spell on a chat-show sofa?
More accurately, it was a memory of a voice in my head, and it told me that everything was OK and things were happening as they should. For a moment, the world had felt at peace. Where did it come from?
Me, actually — the part of all of us that, in my case, caused me to stand in awe the first time I heard Thomas Tallis's Spem in alium, and the elation I felt on a walk one day last February, when the light of the setting sun turned a ploughed field into shocking pink; I believe it's what Abraham felt on the mountain and Einstein did when it turned out that E=mc2.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)