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Present and the Past

«The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.»
«When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.»
«Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.»
«The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be»
«The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.»
«The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion»
«Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.»
«Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.»
«If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future»