#resent

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?" [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ↗

— Susan Sontag

#choices #future #life #past #present

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#distinction #future #illusion #only #past

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#career #getting #going #i #parts

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#past #present #time #life

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#getting #i #into #joy #more

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. ↗

— Brian Eno

#presents #reach #set #situation #slightly

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#burgeoning #civilization #direction #early #flow

Endure the present, and watch for better things. ↗

— Virgil

#better things #endure #present #things #watch