The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
Tags: past future present time stephen-baxter
Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.
Jean-Claude CarrièreTags: future present philosophy effort
The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
Robin HobbIf you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.
Paulo CoelhoTags: present happiness satisfaction
Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
Paulo CoelhoTags: present
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
Lauren KateTags: wisdom past present knowledge
No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.
Kaza KingsleyTrue stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
Siri HustvedtTags: past present stories memory
If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.
Thomas MertonTags: present dreams hope pragmatism
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.
Cormac McCarthyTags: past future present regret the-west
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