Pastoral Resources

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

Confine yourself to the present.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.