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“My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Doe I Can Past Attention Enjoyment Pleasant Gracious Miscellaneous

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.”

States Past Happiness Form Forget Profound Wit Intense Enjoyment Intoxication Forget The Past

Author:Stefan Zweig

“We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.”

Life Past Life Is Emotion Enjoyment

Book:Nature and Life

Source: Nature and Life

“I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.”

Past Games Enjoyment Just Live

Author:Joe Montana