The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."

Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself.

Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the read more

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.