The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Its absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant… — Novalis Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened —that, surely,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a… — George Kubler Copy Share Image
“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river,” she said to them all. “It doesn’t flow away and pour… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present. — H. E Davey Copy Share Image
Happy Veterans Day to all present, past and future service men and women. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated. — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I’m in a pocket of glowing light, protected from complicated relationships and huge mistakes, past and future.” — Lauren Fox Copy Share Image
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present… — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
“It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There will be a day on which we will realize that past and future are nothing else than what we call present. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking… — Susan Lendroth Copy Share Image
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Who is truly wealthy? That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe, past and future, are the same. What… — Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“You carry the past with you. Even if there's a before, and an after, in your life. It's still the same life.… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
