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“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.”
“Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“When we have a world of only now with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow then saying what we can do will work.”
“I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.”
“There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.”
“Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the pre...”
“The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.”
“Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.”
“Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you death stands at your elbow make the most of your minute and be good for something while it is in your power.”
“And if not now when?”
“As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.”
“Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.”
“The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.”
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
“The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.”
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
“My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.”
“Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.”
“Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.”
