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Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live bu...

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As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

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destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to e...

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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--f...

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For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I th...

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The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the her...

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Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they re...

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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to...

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Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty o...

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But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year ...

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Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at t...

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Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all...

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Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...

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It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remai...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

The present moment is significant not as the bridge between past and future but by reason of its c...

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All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon i...

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The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page th...

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Dave EggersHow the Water Feels to the Fishes

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the prese...

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What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it...

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The Future,” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it pre...

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We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...

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Dennis PotterSeeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture

I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...

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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremend...

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a n...

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The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have e...

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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often pro...

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Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is ...

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There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in whi...

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Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chan...

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in th...

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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of m...

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...

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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 w...

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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our l...

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The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris de...

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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleadi...

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted...

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Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives a...

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood...

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

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Gordon B. HinckleyStanding for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure pre...

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At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

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Rules for Living by Olivia Joules14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.and then the new on...

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Helen FieldingOlivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and prese...

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the pres...

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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...

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Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorro...

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We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we...

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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine....

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The present is the blocks with which we build.

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let ...

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Any day stands equal to the rest.

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this miser...

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Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cau...

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