We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
One faces the future with one's past.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.