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«The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.»
Author: Annie Lennox
(Composer, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Future,
Optimism,
Past,
Present,
Reality
«The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.»
Author: Don Rickles
| About:
Past
«There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now»
Author: Eugene O'Neill
| About:
Future,
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
happening, over again, over and over, over and over again
«One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.»
Author: Michael Cibenko
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
frequently, gazing, run around, run out, turn around
«There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.»
«People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.»
Author: Sparky Anderson
| About:
Future,
Living,
Past,
Time
| Keywords:
compete, faults, generally, one of them
«Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Duty,
Future,
Obligation,
Past,
Responsibility,
Time
| Keywords:
preserve
«Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.»
Author: Wayne Dyer
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Future,
Life,
Motivation,
Past
| Keywords:
acting, As If, future day, gone, go past, guaranteed, guaranteeing, past life, rehearsal, rehearsals, stop, The future
«The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.»
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