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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.


Edith Pearlman

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KELLY JONES He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the pas...
KILROY J. OLDSTER To remain silent observe and internalize histories past and present you can set a course to alter th...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contrib...
CHARLES LINDBERGH Can one ever let go of the past when the future becomes the present and the present becomes your pas...
TERESA MORGAN "The past is always subject to the change that the present brings to the future.
JAIME CONTRERAS Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. Bu...
RAHEEL FAROOQ When you make it an issue, it does not just become an issue, but it also grows to become a history a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...
W.H. AUDEN Fuck the past. This was the present.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the pr...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN Life is too short to question, but so is the future and past. Honestly, the present is what matters ...
JORDAN LEE TYO Your accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Marry your future, court your present; divorce your past.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eye...
KRISTIN HANNAH There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Don't let your past pollute your present and disable you from progressing in the future.
MADDY MALHOTRA Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.
DEBORAH CATER Nothing is but what is now
RON RASH It's a symbol of our past, present and future.
DENIS SCUTO A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatn...
JOHN STEINBECK Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to c...
ALICE HOFFMAN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this mome...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Remember your past ,dream for your future but live in the present.
KOWSALAPATHY You carry the past with you. Even if there's a before, and an after, in your life. It's still the sa...
JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-u...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can...
ANNE MICHAELS The past is a series of memories of present moments and the future is present moments to come.
JIM GENOVESE Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Always keep one foot in the past, your head in the present, and your eyes to the future.
JOHN SMITH Don't let past mistakes dictate your future, believe and never give up on the present
HAMLET GARCIA The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contain...
T.S. ELIOT The past is full of of regret, the future fear, and the present joy.
JIM GENOVESE You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and you...
V.T. DAVY I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN WATTS The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The past is full of regret, the future fear, and the present joy.
JIM GENOVESE Let go of the past, embrace the present, and prepare for the future.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
BIL KEANE Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
GUILLERMO ALONSO To live in the past you end up losing your present and forgetting about a future
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the wo...
JOHN KUYPERS I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
GLEN COOK even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories
Never with our footsteps
MIMI NOVIC Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the fut...
THICH NHAT HANH An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, yo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ...
KAGE BAKER Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I didn't realize. I wasn't trying to rewrite history.

You couldn't if you wanted to. It a...
BRANDY HEINEMAN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS Inhale the present, exhale the past and the future.
LETICIA RAE Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 The past is the past but the present and the future is greater.
JANA K ALEXANDER Past reforms the present & present determines the future...
IFTEKHAR HOSSAIN Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought...
ASHIM SHANKER It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo...
ROY T. BENNETT No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co...
ANUROOP TYAGI Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
MAXIM GORKY Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
TONY CAMPOLO Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
T.S. ELIOT Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY People think they're unhappy because they only think of the past and the future, not the present. Li...
SNOW DROP Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the va...
ABHIJIT NASKAR These tenses--past, present and future--are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. Tha...
OSHO [CHANDRA MOHAN JAIN] It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows t...
FREDERICK DODSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Past is story, present is moment to act & future is ray of hope.Therefore don’t lament for past to...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of ...
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.
ASHIM SHANKER The past was the past. The future will be the future. The present is the present. Let's keep it that...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...
ECKHART TOLLE There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot...
ELEANOR BROWN Live your life in present. You may take past as learning lesson & hope for the future but you can ma...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Live the present in such a way that in the future, you will need not be ashamed of your past.
MARK HAMPTON WAYNE The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.
JANE AUSTEN Every single second of our life,we are creating our past,present and future...
YONG BOON Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.
ANUJ SOMANY He wants to clarify his comments on the 60 Minutes show that aired Sunday. With all the media attent...
MARC HABERMANN The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
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EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog...
EDITH WIDDER Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON