When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself. MARIANA FULGER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life. ANUJ SOMANY He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece. WILLIE HAYNES The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste... KATE CHOPIN Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present. BROKEN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ... EPICURUS Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. T.S. ELIOT When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the d... GARRY KASPAROV Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. MARTY RUBIN Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo... GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves... HARUKI MURAKAMI The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories Never with our footsteps MIMI NOVIC Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn... TONY CAMPOLO 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 Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash. ROSEMARIE YUSEN Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ... HOPE MIRRLEES For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op... RAQUEL CEPEDA To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ARTHUR HERTZBERG She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu... DORIS J TORRES Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras... RENEE CARLINO But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on ju... SOHEIR KHASHOGGI I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past. MARTY RUBIN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has dec... SHERRY THOMAS The greatest mystery of all: tomorrow. MARTY RUBIN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind," she say, "you is smart. You is ... KATHRYN STOCKETT The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r... CONNILYN COSSETTE I give the victim the benefit of the doubt when it comes to allegations of rape and sexual abuse. I ... ROXANE GAY We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future. KEN POIROT When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the p... DIAN FOSSEY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL 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 aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities... TONY CAMPOLO Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us ... TONY CAMPOLO 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 Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i... ANUJ SOMANY The power to become the character you desire to be in life is by learning how to condition your thin... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end. LUKE TAYLOR In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y... CORALLIE BUCHANAN dont let the old break you; let the love make you BERTRAND RUSSELL Long after the poor departed have gone from our hearts, their insignificant dust continues to be min... MARCEL PROUST Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying... TONI MORRISON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. VERONICA ROTH We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain. SOPHOCLES The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. GEORGE MACDONALD Life's irony;When a lady meets her future spouse,what comes to her naughty mind is this,"the way he ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Your future is guided by the knowledge gleaned from the past. JAIME CONTRERAS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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