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There is no point in regretting any part of the past. the past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
-P. D. James
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There Is No Point In Regretting Any

P. D. James
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. the past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
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How often are you worrying about the present moment? the present moment is usually all right. if you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. we tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment god gives any of us to live.
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