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“My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.”
Gene Oliver
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”
Henry David Thoreau
“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future”
Quevedo
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward
“One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
Voltaire
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Charles Dickens
“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
George Orwell
“Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.”
John Maxwell