And never have I felt so deeply at one and, at the same time, so detached from myself, and so present in the world.
Albert Camus
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing
Oscar Wilde
I am born with a past, and to try to cut myself off from that past is to deform my present relationships.
Alasdair MacIntyre
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Eckhart Tolle
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I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - French writer (1873-1954)
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
Language bearers, photographers, diary makers

You with your memory are dead, frozen

Lost in a present that never stops passing

Here lives the incantation of matter

A language forever.



Like a flame burning away the darkness

Life is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.
Movie: Begotten
Self-disclosure is sharing with someone information which helps him or her understand you. Self-disclosure is most revealing when the sharing is in the present and least revealing when the sharing is about the past.
D. Johnson
Book: Reaching Out: Interpersonal Effectiveness and Self-Actualization (Boston: Allyn and Bacon) 1997, p. 33