“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
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Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988Related quotes
1920s, The Democracy of Sports (1924)
“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
is equally relevant.
The World's Last Night (1952)
“Avoid the past, live the present, anticipate the future.”
Original: (it) Evita il passato, vivi il presente, anticipa il futuro.
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Speech at Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, Scotland ("Unemployment"), October 10, 1908, in Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909), Churchill, Echo Library (2007), p. 87
Early career years (1898–1929)
Context: What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.
