The present quotations

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◆ The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

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◆ The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be

- Jay Franklin98

◆ The sea is as near as we come to another world.

- Anne Stevenson98

◆ When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me

- John Wesley98

◆ One today is worth two tomorrows.

- Benjamin Franklin98

◆ There's no time like the present

- Proverb98

◆ The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

- James Thurber98

◆ The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

- William MacNeile Dixon98

◆ These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde98

◆ Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

- Charles Lindbergh98

◆ There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now

- Eugene O'Neill98

◆ 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.

- Oscar Wilde98

◆ History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy98

◆ 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

- Ernest Renan98

◆ 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.

- Ralph Waldo Trine98