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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 (The Present Quotes)
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness (The Present Quotes)
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity (The Present Quotes)
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future (The Present Quotes)
The present moment dies every moment to become the past, is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends (The Present Quotes)
Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don’t ignore the present when you take them out to play (The Present Quotes)
For the first time in a long time, he didn’t think of the past. And of all the things he’d lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it (The Present Quotes)
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line (The Present Quotes)
It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future (The Present Quotes)
I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present (The Present Quotes)
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy (The Present Quotes)
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past (The Present Quotes)
Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody’s. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away (The Present Quotes)
Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams (The Present Quotes)
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future (The Present Quotes)
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world (The Present Quotes)
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having (The Present Quotes)
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present (The Present Quotes)
Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present (The Present Quotes)
History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future (The Present Quotes)
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are (The Present Quotes)
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind (The Present Quotes)
The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it (The Present Quotes)
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late (The Present Quotes)
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me (The Present Quotes)
I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live (The Present Quotes)
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived (The Present Quotes)
You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read (The Present Quotes)
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future (The Present Quotes)
In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future (The Present Quotes)