The future influences the present just as much as the past.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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- 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
- 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
- “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass
- There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. – Eugene O’Neill
- There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. – George Carlin
- You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Anonymous
- 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
- To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all. – Pablo Picasso