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• I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

  Madame de Stael

  Believe, Years, Next Year

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• The glories of the possible are ours.

  Bayard Taylor

  Glory

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.106

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Death, Elude

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

  Alan Watts

  Worry, Progress

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Death, Peace, Fear

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• What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Tired, Years, Mind

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• What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

  Huston Smith

  Gratitude, Responsibility, Past

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

  King James I

  Blessing, Trouble, Hours

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• Let us be such as help the life of the future.

  Zoroaster

  Helping

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• The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Heart, Eye, Reality

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• You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

  Faith Popcorn

  Popcorn, Balls, Crystals

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.102, BookBaby

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• My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Mind, World, Moments

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1846). “The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett”, p.83

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• Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

  Francis Atterbury

  This Life, Enjoyment

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• The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

  Francis Atterbury

  World, Importance, Certainty

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• Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

  Audre Lorde

  Joy, Tomorrow, Belonging

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.96, Courier Dover Publications

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• No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Opposites, Heaven, Soul

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.292

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• The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.

  Orville Dewey

  Forever, Departure, Strange

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• We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspire, Made, Discontent

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• Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

  Ian Gawler

  Past, Goal, Mindfulness

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• Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

  Evelyn Nesbit

  Past, Nuts

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• Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

  Jane Gardam

  Real, Forget, Knows

  Jane Gardam (1986). “Crusoe's Daughter”, Atheneum Books

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• When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

  Suetonius

  Fire, Earth

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• Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Past, Action, Longing

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• The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Past, Given, Built

  Gladys Hasty Carroll (1957). “Sing Out the Glory”

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• I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fear, Past, Desire

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