Dignity Quote by Samuel Johnson

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

The more thoughts of the past we carry in our heart. The less capable we are of loving and living in the present.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

— Paulo Coelho

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We keep the sediments of the past in the form of regrets, resentments, grudges, arrogance, defeatist attitude etc. that sap our energy and drag…

— T Joseph Benziger

“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

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat

“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

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that…

— Deepak Chopra

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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