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• To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Beauty, Mean, Past

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

  Helen Jacobs

  Way, Endure, I Can

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• O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Heaven

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

  Winston Churchill

  Past, Two, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Finding Yourself, Looks, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.28, Nayika Publishing

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• When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
  But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
  We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
  Without a fear of evil yet to come.

  Ovid

  Prayer, Feet, Evil

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• The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Past, People

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• Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Past, Law, Wish

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Significant Change, Safety, Self Love

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• In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.
  On an implication of the uncertainty principle.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Uncertainty Principle, Law, Principles

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• Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Yesterday, Substance, Today

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• A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.

  James Hutton

  Order, Land, Support

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• A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

  Christina Stead

  Youth, Conservatism

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Intellectual, Academia, Development

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• Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Motivational, Success, Moving

  Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.126, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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• It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Knowing, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Children, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Men, Ability

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.70, Library of America

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• But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

  Joko Beck

  Dream, Memories, Reality

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• The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Events

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• the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

  C. D. Broad

  Real, Past, World

  John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, C. D. Broad (1988). “The Nature of Existence:”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Past, Looking To The Future

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• You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Listening Ear, Bird

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• Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Heart, Men

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• Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Regret, Anger

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.9, Sounds True

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