A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffer

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffer