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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.