Past Future Quotes
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.
Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.
Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.
Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.
If you became grateful, right now, for everything that ever happened in your past, how would that impact your view of the future?
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.
Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.
I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.
There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.