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The Present
«To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Glory,
Past,
People,
The Present
| Keywords:
essential condition, glories
«To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.»
«The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.»
Author: William MacNeile Dixon
| About:
Facts,
The Present
| Keywords:
cluttered, portrait, vibrate, vibrated, Vibrates, vibrating
«The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Happiness,
Past,
The Present,
Time
| Keywords:
hoping, inevitable, thus
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
(Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
egg, laid, lay-by, shell
«What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Life,
The Present
| Keywords:
build, building up, build in, comes, Creation, from, mind, Only Yesterday, present, The Creation, thoughts, today, tomorrow, yesterday
«The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Future,
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
artists, importance