Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.
- Topic: Life, Time
- Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.