“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”
– Frederick Douglass
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- Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. – Epicurus
- The past doesn’t EXIST. Neither is the future, so be present in the present. Just BE! – Gladys Adevey
- What we are today is a result of our own past actions; What ever we wish to be in the future depends on our present actions; Decide how you want to act now. We are responsible for what we are, whatever we wish ourselves to be. We have the power to make ourselves.
- The soul that is within me no man can degrade. – Frederick Douglass
- Let’s face it: the present self is present. It’s in control. It’s in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It’s off in the future. It’s weak. It doesn’t even have a lawyer present. – Daniel Goldstein
- In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. – Pablo Picasso
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass
- Friedrich SchleiermacherThe essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. – Frederick Douglass
- The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche