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.

Stephen Baxter

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Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.

Jean-Claude Carrière

Tag: future present philosophy effort



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The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Robin Hobb

Tag: past present



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If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Paulo Coelho

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Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

Paulo Coelho

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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 Kate

Tag: wisdom past present knowledge



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No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.

Kaza Kingsley

Tag: humor present time



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True 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 Hustvedt

Tag: past present stories memory



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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 Merton

Tag: present dreams hope pragmatism



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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 McCarthy

Tag: past future present regret the-west



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