Past Future Quotes

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.

Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

‎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.

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

People exiled in past and disowning present may build wealth but not future in life

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.