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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan Watts

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne Williamson

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James A. Baldwin

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Woodrow Wilson

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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