If I could somehow know the future,
then now should not be like this time.
Mots clés life past future present today time-travel concept
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri HustvedtMots clés past present memory brain image
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.
Anton ChekhovMots clés past present time connection
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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.
Alan W. WattsMots clés present time memory names expectation now
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
Jamie FordMots clés past present chances missing wanting
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
Hermann HesseMots clés past future present happiness history
To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory
Jeremy AldanaMots clés life past future present journey
Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you
Jeremy AldanaThe great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
David AllenMots clés goals future present change
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.
Peter BenchleyMots clés past future present jaws ellen-brody
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