present Quotes

“For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Economy is the method by which we prepare to-day to afford the improvements of to-morrow.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

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“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:past present control

“I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. I don’t give a fuck any more what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. I’m healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

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“Jus' live the day . . . Don' worry yaself.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:living present

“Don't think of what's past! . . . I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:future past present

“it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

topic:present existence

“How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:future youth present

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