If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.