Present
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial — what I present to people outwardly — but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
For my part, I desire to see the time when education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
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