Past Future Quotes

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.