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I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.


Henry David Thoreau

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KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH 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.
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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
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MOULOUD BENZADI I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
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FREDERICK DOUGLAS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
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MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
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JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
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ALBERT EINSTEIN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
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STEVEN WOOD Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
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KATE CHOPIN Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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PAULO COELHO If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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ROSE MACAULAY I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
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RICHARD DREYFUSS Invent a past for the present.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate pov...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any preceden...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Of what significance are the things you can forget.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women ov...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but ...
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