Best future & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”

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Author:Dian Fossey

“Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.”

Should Past Future Architecture Rooted Looking Forward Past Present Future

Author:Moshe Safdie

“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

Children States Facts Past Science Parent Evolution Future Doctrine

Book:The Outline of Science, First Volume

Source: The Outline of Science, First Volume

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

Men May Past Society Danger Future Anger Slave Sane Robots Meaningless Life

Author:Erich Fromm

“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.”

People Done Past Differences Gone Future Areas Concerned Thoughtful Making A Difference

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.”

Age Past Future Miracle Absurd

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”

Ifs Doe Art Past Future Works Of Art Live In The Present

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.”

Trying Past Worry Future Solve

Book:A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

Source: A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

“Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.”

Past Habit Future Our Past

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.”

Past Willing Future Ashes

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.”

Looks Past Remember Fall Future Empires Sooner Or Later Premonition

Author:Al Stewart

“I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.”

Past Future My Future My Past Forecasts

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.”

Mind Past Memories Fiction Future Things Past

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.”

Knows Needs May God Stories Past Can Do Courage Share Honest Honesty Like You Future Our Past Your Past Portrayal

Book:The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life

Source: The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life

“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

Mean Use Past Design Objects Future Mark Aim Instruments Past And Present

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

“Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.”

Past Future Mindfulness Happenings Holding On Immediacy

Book:Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Source: Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.”

Past Simple Responsibility Gratitude Future All Things Infinite Things Past

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“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.”

Humans Age Past Flower Future Opening Golden Human Experience Eden Golden Age Gethsemane

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.”

Humans Littles Past Goal Human Beings Ability Attention Future Mindfulness Concentration Orientation

Author:Ian Gawler

“Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.”

Past Future Nuts

Author:Evelyn Nesbit

“Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.”

Action Past Future Majors Longing Factors Appropriate Fear Of The Future

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

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

Has Beens Past Given Future Built Our Past

Book:Sing Out the Glory

Source: Sing Out the Glory

“I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.”

Past Remember Desire Fear Imagine Future Timeless Remembering The Past

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.”

Mean Moments Past Realizing Existence Beauty Practice Future Clarity Useless Present Moment Daydreaming

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

“All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.”

Past Company Balance Future Reports Sheets Past Present Future Speculators Balance Sheets

Book:How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas system for stock market profits

Source: How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas system for stock market profits

“There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.”

Trying Firsts Two Past Courses Process Conditions Development Periods Future Scientist Method Endeavor Historian Spheres Minors Surveys Sequels Alterations

Book:If I lived my life again

Source: If I lived my life again

“The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.”

People Real Past Future Deeds Bones Graves Meat Utopia

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.”

Together Past Law Wish Fantasy Periods Future Active Construction Thread Adolescence Linear Reconstruction Past Present Past Present And Future Deconstruction Chronology

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.”

Moments Motivational Past Moving Success Decision Future Determined Moving Forward Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past Decisions You Make

Book:The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll

Source: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll

“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”

World Has Beens Real Past Existence Happened Becoming Future World History

Book:The Nature of Existence:

Source: The Nature of Existence:

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

Past Future Looking To The Future

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.”

Helping Problem Running Past Healing Worry Learning Meditation Regret Future Despair Difficulty Anger Running Away Carried Away

Book:Walking Meditation

Source: Walking Meditation

“There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.”

People Past Fear Sorrow Future Eating Anger Orange

Book:The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat

Source: The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat

“No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.”

Knows Moments Past Joy Desire Universe Peace Future Pure Foundation Present Moment Peace And Joy

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

“You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”

Want Dream Past Company Too Much Future Protect Survival Concern Concerned Longing Dues Extinction Protect Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”

Knows Way Past Judging Future Investing Cycles Judging You

Author:Patrick Henry

“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”

People Thinking Want Life Inspirational Past Enjoy Future Picks Appreciate Live In The Moment Spoil Future And Present Fretting

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”

Looks War Past Future Philosophical Rose Empires Anti War Antiwar Over The Past

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?”

“Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.”

Trying Past Imagination Imagine Building Future Architecture Measurement Past Present Future

Author:Richard Rogers

“He who controls the past controls the future.”

“What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.”

Inspirational Matter Moments Past Path Future Patterns What Matters Live In The Moment Your Future Your Past Outlines Live In The Present

Author:Sai Baba

“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”

Inspirational Mind Different Past Positive Future Illusion Messiah Free Spirit Changing Your Mind Power Of Choice Lynching Seagull Jonathan Livingston Seagull Livingston Seagull Jonathan Seagull Illusions Of Life Changing My Mind

Book:Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Today Past Time Opportunity Inspirational Life Tomorrow Future Yesterday Wordplay Past Present Future Today Is A Gift

Author:Bil Keane

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.”

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