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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Lonely, Past, People

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Garden

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fear, Future, Adventure

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Future, Happy Accidents, Used

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

  S. N. Goenka

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Discourse Summaries”, p.14, Pariyatti Publishing

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• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Grief, Grieving

  "Alexander". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Flux, Existence

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• The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Gavin Extence

  Silly, Past, People

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• ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Alive

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

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• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Past, Forget

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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• A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Adversity, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  God, Time, Future

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

  David Gerrold

  Love, Dream, Memories

  David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Inspiring, Wise

  Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

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• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Regret, Opportunity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

  Jean Cocteau

  What Matters, Past Present Future, Earth

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Nothing is worth more than this day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bad Day, Carpe Diem, Garden

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 789, 1833.

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