The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The line frames time as a dynamic boundary: the “present” is not a stable possession but a constantly shifting edge between memory (“yesterday”) and anticipation (“tomorrow”). Calling it a “shadow” suggests both ephemerality and dependence—our sense of now is cast by what has been and what is coming. The final sentence locates “hope” precisely in this moving interval: because the present is where choices and actions occur, it is the only point at which the future can be altered. Read this way, the quote encourages attention to the immediacy of lived experience and the agency embedded in the moment, rather than nostalgia or anxiety.