Future Past Quotes

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

The future projects light, the past only clouds

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

I know my past is not what my future holds.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.