I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind read more

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better read more

You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better memories for the future.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in read more

Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting Now?

Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: read more

Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice