Change Quote by Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that…

— Babylon 5

“The present moment is as old as existence … and as long as eternity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents -- contents which can fill…

— Dag Hammarskjold

“The past is over, and the future is unknown. We can dwell in the imagined worlds of yesterday and tomorrow if we so choose.…

— Lama Surya Das

“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…

— Milan Kundera

“The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover…

— John Gray

“One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and future. It…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with…

— Neel Burton