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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.


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The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
TONY CAMPOLO 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 You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES 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 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 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 aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities...
TONY CAMPOLO 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 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 At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
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 When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN 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 The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKE He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 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 I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY 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. He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK In the present, there is only the here and now.
For the past is gone and the future has yet to a...
GABRIELLA GODDARD We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
JOAN RIVERS The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th...
EMMET FOX The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be
JAY FRANKLIN Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 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 We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technolog...
EDWARD O. WILSON Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON 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 Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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