Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Louis LAmour
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  2. When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent. - Jeff Tikari

  3. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - Bertolt Brecht

  4. Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day. - Saul Bellow

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More Quotes By Louis LAmour
  1. Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

  2. Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

  3. I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

  4. Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

  5. It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

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