What surprises me most is "Man" because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present; The result being he doesn't live in the present or the future; He lives as if he's never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.
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The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.
The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.
I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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