An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.
Jim Davis
Related Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know ... MILAN KUNDERA It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying t... PHILIP ZIMBARDO We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas me... TOM NORTH A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories o... MURIEL JAMES Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to sh... PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO The past is a series of memories of present moments and the future is present moments to come. JIM GENOVESE It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co... ANUROOP TYAGI We can only be HAPPY in the present. Not. In the Past. Or. The Future. LORRIN L. LEE Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present... BIL KEANE It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo... SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo... SAMUEL JOHNSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... MARCEL PROUST It is all about how God can use my abilities for the future. It is God using me. I'm just a tool. LARRY OTIS The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct o... FREDERICK DOUGLASS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO "The colors of our personal rainbows can be dim or bright, depending on our perceptions of our ow... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future.... BLAISE PASCAL I can´t change my past, or predict my future. But i can shape my present. ARMIN HOUMAN The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th... ALFRED WHITEHEAD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all tha... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best w... W. E. B. DU BOIS We all have a darkness within us, it stems from our past. When we can forgive ourselves and not worr... DANIEL GILMAN With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of th... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON WE ARE ALIVE IN THE PRESENT, EVERYTHING ELSE IS PAST OR FUTURE ! DR.PRASAD RAJHANS It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves pri... SHARON SALZBERG Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. Bu... RAHEEL FAROOQ The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only ... STEPHEN BAXTER No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co... ANUROOP TYAGI Let him who reads forgive the intrusion of a dream into a history of fact. But it came so home to me... H. RIDER HAGGARD In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or ... JAMES BUCHAN We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The... KILROY J. OLDSTER Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the pre... BILL KEANE The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi... WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi... WILLA SIBERT CATHER There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That... DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It is vital that Scotchtown be preserved so others can continue to learn. Place is so important to u... CATHERINE DEAN It is vital that Scotchtown be preserved so others can continue to learn, ... Place is so important ... CATHERINE DEAN We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they... CARL SAGAN Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it. PAULO COELHO We sell them an evening of films. We give them two options. I can present it and be the MC or they c... KATHY DOTSON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ... ANNA QUINDLEN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Imagination and recollection of cherished memories of the pastimes are closely related. We do not re... KILROY J. OLDSTER Focus on the future or you forget the present and it becomes the past BRANDON GREEN Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against e... CATHERINE MARSHALL How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain. LLOYD ALEXANDER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You know why past and future are more attractive to the mind and not the present? There is no edit b... SANDEEP GOSWAMY An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. WILLIAM BERNBACH An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. WILLIAM BERNBACH An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. WILLIAM BERNBACH I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am... UNKNOWN X Can one ever let go of the past when the future becomes the present and the present becomes your pas... TERESA MORGAN I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that ... STEVEN ERIKSON For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and co... SHAWN LUKAS Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the pas... KILROY J. OLDSTER In the eyes of God, we're all perfect and we all have unlimited capacity to express brilliantly. I s... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer’s gaze we sit, one’s uniqueness... FENNEL HUDSON For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ... MARCUS AURELIUS A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is. DAVE BARRY Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us ... WILLA CATHER Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Taro... THERESA CHEUNG Each day is a new beginning. You can start fresh, anticipating what today will bring. Or you can jus... EVE EVANGELISTA Yesterday was the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift, that why it's called the present. BIL KEANE We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. FREDERICK DOUGLASS I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and... BRIAN L. WEISS, M.D. Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with ... KILROY J. OLDSTER The past was the past. The future will be the future. The present is the present. Let's keep it that... RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO If you dread tomorrow it's because you don't know how to build the present, and when you don't know ... MURIEL BARBERY
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