We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it

They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust,

Remember your past ,dream for your future but live in the present.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.