Future Past Quotes

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.

The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.

The past is all we know of the future.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

Indemnity for the past and security for the future.

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.