Past Future Quotes
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.
Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.
Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.
The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
