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Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.