Future Past Quotes
I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.
Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
