All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. - Pope Paul VI

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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers

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If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.― Roy Bennett

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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

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I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing. ― Jennifer Elisabeth

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There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

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The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. ― Kiran Desai

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