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</div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/31970-when-we-are-tired-we-are-attacked-by-ideas-we">4379 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/838305.Mother_Teresa"> <img alt="Mother Teresa" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263888735i/838305._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Mother Theresa </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/carpe-diem">carpe-diem</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/present">present</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/time">time</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/44552-yesterday-is-gone-tomorrow-has-not-yet-come-we-have">3642 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2546.Chuck_Palahniuk"> <img alt="Chuck Palahniuk" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Chuck Palahniuk, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_22283> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/1602338">Survivor</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/life">life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/1448-you-realize-that-our-mistrust-of-the-future-makes-it">3601 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2522.Zadie_Smith"> <img alt="Zadie Smith" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1478188567i/2522._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Zadie Smith </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/grammar">grammar</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/language">language</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/23195-the-past-is-always-tense-the-future-perfect">2867 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/4178.Cormac_McCarthy"> <img alt="Cormac McCarthy" 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<div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami"> <img alt="Haruki Murakami" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615497402i/3354._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Haruki Murakami, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_17800> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2753173">Dance Dance Dance</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/clock">clock</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/possibilities">possibilities</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ticking">ticking</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/time">time</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/121885-unfortunately-the-clock-is-ticking-the-hours-are-going-by">2567 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/91.John_Banville"> <img alt="John Banville" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407383277i/91._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> John Banville, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_3656> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/987554">The Sea</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/memories">memories</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/240545-the-past-beats-inside-me-like-a-second-heart">2424 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/31428.Kiran_Desai"> <img alt="Kiran Desai" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232769561i/31428._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Kiran Desai, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_95186> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/563837">The Inheritance of Loss</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/change">change</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/present">present</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/409828-the-present-changes-the-past-looking-back-you-do-not">2315 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1054.Beryl_Markham"> <img alt="Beryl Markham" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254274132i/1054._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Beryl Markham, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_1624> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/192528">West with the Night</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/anchoring">anchoring</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/attachment">attachment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/belonging">belonging</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/home">home</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/homelessness">homelessness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/leaving">leaving</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/memories">memories</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/memory">memory</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/moving-on">moving-on</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reminiscence">reminiscence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/roots">roots</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/uncertainty">uncertainty</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/251569-i-have-learned-that-if-you-must-leave-a-place">2042 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2167493.Gautama_Buddha"> <img alt="Gautama Buddha" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356856893i/2167493._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Gautama Buddha, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_4114075> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/4161250">Sayings of Buddha</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/alone">alone</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/buddha">buddha</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/buddhism">buddhism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/destiny">destiny</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fate">fate</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/lone">lone</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/path">path</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/present">present</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/save">save</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/saying">saying</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/walk">walk</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/498520-no-one-saves-us-but-ourselves-no-one-can-and">2029 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/3535.William_Faulkner"> <img alt="William Faulkner" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615562983i/3535._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> William Faulkner, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_1008839> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2041161">Requiem for a Nun</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/time">time</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12124-the-past-is-never-dead-it-s-not-even-past">1933 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/20108.George_Harrison"> <img alt="George Harrison" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1340857233i/20108._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> George Harrison </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/beatles">beatles</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/carpe-diem">carpe-diem</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/present">present</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/time">time</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/23695-it-s-being-here-now-that-s-important-there-s-no-past-and">1877 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/4370565.Erin_Morgenstern"> <img alt="Erin Morgenstern" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1552589582i/4370565._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Erin Morgenstern, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_9361589> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/14245059">The Night Circus</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/future">future</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gifts">gifts</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/magic">magic</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/possibilities">possibilities</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/stories">stories</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/talents">talents</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/442778-someone-needs-to-tell-those-tales-when-the-battles-are">1606 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1265.Jane_Austen"> <img alt="Jane Austen" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Jane Austen, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_1885> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3060926">Pride and Prejudice</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/elizabeth-bennet">elizabeth-bennet</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/pleasure">pleasure</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/remembrance">remembrance</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11566-you-must-learn-some-of-my-philosophy-think-only-of">1585 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/711.Rick_Warren"> <img alt="Rick Warren" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298172148i/711.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Rick Warren, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_56495> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2265235">The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/change">change</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/growth">growth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/inspirational">inspirational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/learning-from-mistakes">learning-from-mistakes</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/past">past</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/10497-we-are-products-of-our-past-but-we-don-t-have">1546 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1406384.John_Green"> <img alt="John Green" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353452301i/1406384._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. 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