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“Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.”

Past Beautiful Time Limits

Author:Meher Baba

“Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.”

Today Past Time Dies Opportunity Enjoy Challenges Pleasure Magic Passing Passings Glorious Each Day Undone New Challenges Enjoy Today

Author:Ruth Carter Stapleton

“How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.”

Two Past Time All Things Disappear

Book:The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.”

Ifs Giving Years May Different Past Time Courses Names Flower Bears Periods Ten Edges Caught Decades Labels Borders Ties Attributes Different Names

Book:Told by an Idiot

Source: Told by an Idiot

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln

“The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.”

Ifs Made Past Time Thread Warp Future Time

Book:A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

“But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.”

World Children Past Certain Time Literature Language Sick Dancing Tunes Cracked Dreary Sick Children

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”

Men World Years Earth Past Time Order Hours Sleep Broken Circles Thread Arousal Times Past

Author:Marcel Proust