The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.
My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
Today is older than tomorrow,that is the power of the present.
Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy. * Other parts have a broader range of fe...
Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I hav...
I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them don’t make sense – which is disturbing when you consider that they are an attempt to govern the behavior of reality – bu...
If we define optimism broadly as the tendency to maintain a positive outlook, then realistic optimism is the tendency to maintain a positive outlook within the constraints of the available "measurable phenomena situated in the physical and social wor...
When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own reality, as filled with compassion and kindness. I refer here to the idea of unconditional compassion and kindness. It means that we can choose to...
It is my experience that bold decisions give the best promise of success. But one must differentiate between [strategic] and tactical boldness and a military gamble. A bold operation is one in which success is not a certainty but which in case of fai...
All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situati...
[Anakin has been appointed onto the council, but denied mastership] Anakin Skywalker: I swear to you... I didn't ask to be put on the council. Obi-Wan Kenobi: But it's what you wanted. Your friendship with Chancellor Palpatine seems to have paid off....
Fuck the past. This was the present.
Past tears are present strength.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
