“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ”

“Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“We blow the past a kiss, our last blush of artifice as performers before this Future we’re flirting with becomes terribly and totally Real. And we then begin to occupy reality.”

“And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”