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◆ I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

- Jamie Ford99

◆ One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

- Golda Meir99

◆ The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.

- Andrew Solomon99

◆ For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Even when you'd lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

- Jenny Valentine99

◆ The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ But now isn't simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.

- Christopher Isherwood99

◆ Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

- Art Buchwald99

◆ We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

- Robin Hobb99

◆ Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

- Bertolt Brecht99

◆ Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

- Patricia Briggs99

◆ Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

- Louis L'Amour99