The past is depressing, the future anxious, and the present calming.
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The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES 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 The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
BIL KEANE Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
GUILLERMO ALONSO Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
TONY CAMPOLO Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities...
TONY CAMPOLO Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us ...
TONY CAMPOLO Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be...
HELEN ZILLE We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
STEVEN WOOD Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
ROGER ROSENBLATT The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the ...
SENECA The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
MARTY RUBIN Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future
KAY LYONS He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experienc...
DALAI LAMA Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To Geo...
RICHARD DREYFUSS Invent a past for the present.
DANIEL STERN I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
JULIETTE BINOCHE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past.
You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
GORDON HUETHER Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibil...
GELSEY KIRKLAND This cannot be about what's coming in the future. It has to be about what's here now, in the present...
ELAINE PHILLIPS Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.
HELENE LAGERBERG The future teaches you to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold
MANIC STREET PREACHERS Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The Present, is the Past's, Dystopian Future..............
MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future
WINSTON CHURCHILL My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present b...
GENE OLIVER Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the onl...
T.F. HODGE A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatn...
JOHN STEINBECK For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.
MARIANA FULGER Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past
THEODORE ROOSEVELT What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We forgot about that a long time ago. The past is gone. We're more excited about the present and we ...
BRANDON HEATH The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure ...
HEINZ FISCHER The basic (theme) is the past catching up with the present, ... It's how the actions of one affects ...
HOWARD WILSON There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present
LILIAN EICHLER WATSON It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ...
JIM BISHOP Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
JOHN MAXWELL The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Because my life is so full, I'm usually focused on the present and not the future. But now I have to...
LISA ROSE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the...
CARLOS SANTANA In the present, there is only the here and now.
For the past is gone and the future has yet to a...
GABRIELLA GODDARD My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present ...
GENE OLIVER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment d...
CHANAKYA Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The past is the past but the present and the future is greater.
JANA K ALEXANDER In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO The past was the past. The future will be the future. The present is the present. Let's keep it that...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The past and the present look a whole lot alike in the prevalence of racial discrimination in voting...
BARBARA ARNWINE That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
SYDNEY SMITH The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our arch...
ROBERT A. M. STERN To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things togethe...
ERNEST RENAN It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ...
JIM BISHOP I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
PAMELA ANDERSON DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee...
AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m...
TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with...
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