"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s
“We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.”
“The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.”
Source: The Fiery Cross
Variant: Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
“We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”
[Driving With Elon Musk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSNXhHTLLIk, 26 March 2012]
“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
Source: The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 563
“The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.”
Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 12, p. 180
2009, The Best of Me (2011)
Words of Wisdom from Buddhist Master Jun Hong Lu, Volume 1 (2016) ISBN 978-0-6482300-1-4
Did Eve really have an Extra Rib?: And other tough questions about the Bible (2002)
