It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves...
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. Yo... CARSTEN JENSEN The future does not exist anywhere, and the past exists only within your memory. Live in the now. MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now EUGENE O'NEILL There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. EUGENE O'NEILL What is to live for now? You have to forget the past, stop thinking about the future to live for the... EPHDAN I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to c... ALICE HOFFMAN You carry the past with you. Even if there's a before, and an after, in your life. It's still the sa... JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-u... HARUKI MURAKAMI Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can... ANNE MICHAELS With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time... , ALWAYS NOW, 1997 Every now and then, I deserve to say what I feel. SELENA GOMEZ The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right her... ANNIE LENNOX Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time o... DENIS WAITLEY My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was... NINA HRUSA It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleadi... GEORGE HARRISON I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now -- unless I am letting my consciousness be dominat... KEN S. KEYES JR. The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. BILL COSBY The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. BILL COSBY ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w... ECKHART TOLLE There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot... ELEANOR BROWN A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The... DARREN SHAN We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future. CHOGYAM TRUNGPA Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the onl... T.F. HODGE We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future. KEN POIROT I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't ... HEATH LEDGER Live not in the depressive past, nor the anxious future, but NOW. ANNA O The past or past events and the future or future events, ONLY EXIST IN THE MIND. They are not real o... JACK TYME Bring 'only' good memories from the past to your present and that will bring you all the happiness,n... ANUROOP TYAGI I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am... UNKNOWN X We have a lot of good athletes here. In the past, we haven't done well against other teams, but now ... MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the pas... KILROY J. OLDSTER I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my con... KEN KEYES JR. I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and
now, unless I am letting my con... KEN KEYES In the present, there is only the here and now. For the past is gone and the future has yet to a... GABRIELLA GODDARD I did not know who I was. But now, watching it all unfold and having a past, a present and a futu... RICKIE LEE JONES The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion ALBERT EINSTEIN Time moves forward, people get old and change is inevitable. Live for now, the future and not in the... KISHAN S CHAUHAN It's barely typical writing about things of the past here in the present; for, when we do, it's only... MARCO OSCAR OZ Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. FULTON OURSLER You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume yo... WAYNE DYER The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ALBERT EINSTEIN Now and then I find a kitschy series I love. ADAM PASCAL Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us bel... ALBERT EINSTEIN Do not Dwell on the Past, or Worry about the Future.
Consider only Now, for it is Real. DANIEL RIEGER ANDERSSON I don't think we can build much of a future,' says Shara, 'without knowing the truth of the past. It... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT From the past we have to learn, the future we have to plan, and NOW we have to act! AVRAHAM PEER We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. ANNA FREUD Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now, SYLVIA EARLE When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves fr... GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but ... CARL SANDBURG "The past is always subject to the change that the present brings to the future. JAIME CONTRERAS The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we w... LESLIE T. CHANG I promise myself never again to remember the past and cry
I promise myself never again to hope for t... IRINA LOVE I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - ... ALAN ARKIN I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of hum... MOTHER ANGELICA We can't live in our past, it is no more. We can't live in the future, it is yet to be formed. We ca... LYNETTE CHAMBERS Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? BRIAN TRACY While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com... JONATHAN SACKS I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. DAVID GERROLD Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no ... SAUL BELLOW Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want... ALEX RODRIGUEZ What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and a... SAI BABA The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the ... HUMAN ANGELS I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ... KAGE BAKER I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the m... PHIL KNIGHT Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places... KILROY J. OLDSTER Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us... ALBERT EINSTEIN We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty ... JOHN FRENCH The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your min... WAYNE DYER We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The... KILROY J. OLDSTER We feel proud. We worked really hard. But it's a new season now. What we did in the past put us in g... SHAY DORON The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many i... ANATOLE BROYARD I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing to... HEATH LEDGER When we live in the past, there is no future. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now. BRANDON SANDERSON The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t... WILLIAM MORRIS We all want to feel peace, and it is always available to us when we can let go of past hurts, hope f... JASON T. ROGERS There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that b... JOHANN VON GOETHE There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that b... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived t... VIRGINIA WOOLF Finalement, ce n'est peut-être pas la corruption ni l'avidité qui rend lâche. Peut-être n'est-ce... ANN BRASHARES Jeżeli chce się żyć każdą nadarzającą się chwilą, trzeba umierać dla każdej innej chwili... ALDOUS HUXLEY And now And Now is the time ... in which inside you are going to get bored (But you have time c... DEYTH BANGER There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha... JEANETTE WINTERSON Your past and your future play a role in your life, but the leading role is the here-and-now! JEFFREY BENJAMIN A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s fut... A.B. SHEPHERD The past only dies so the future can live. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ... DEREK JARMAN An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ... DEREK JARMAN Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embr... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. GEORGE CARLIN Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
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