Future Memories Quotes

#1. And then I went back to face the future memories that had been flapping around in my mind like wounded birds.

Cyn Balog

#2. May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future.

Nanae Chrono

#3. A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

Bruce Barton

#4. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Corrie Ten Boom

#6. You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Dee Henderson

#7. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Marianne Curley

#8. The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive. But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.

Wendy Mass

#9. He was going to miss everything. But he guessed that was how everybody always felt. Everyone was losing things, leaving things behind, clinging to old memories as they rushed into the future. Everyone was a passenger on a runaway train.

Philip Reeve

#10. We can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us, on the inside of us looking out. The past should not be allowed to evaporate but should exist only in memories.

Sean Sullivan

#11. Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

Deepak Chopra

#12. To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

Frederick E. Crane

#13. A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Octavio Paz

#14. Memories were just future sadness stored away

Matt Haig

#15. Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

Maria V. Snyder

#16. A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

Pope Francis

#17. May today be filled
With bright hopes for the future
And happy memories of the past

John Walter Bratton

#18. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Lysa TerKeurst

#19. Every event creates a memory in the heart; photographs remind and reinforce that memory in the future,

Debasish Mridha

#20. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore De Balzac

#21. Only time will tell, as our memories fade into a past that isn't meant to be a part of the future. Eventually, we have to find a way to let them go, to move forward and accept what's to come.

A.M. Willard

#22. Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

Jaggi Vasudev

#23. [They] talked mostly of their memories, for the past was all they had - the present being such a changable, odd thing, and the future too far away.

Jayne Fresina

#24. Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.

Truth Devour

#25. I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#26. Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future.

Toba Beta

#27. Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

Anthony Liccione

#28. No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Los Angeles Times

#29. Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

Aubrey De Grey

#30. I may not write new wisdoms nor new ideas.
I write things which are about to happen in the future,
things which might be lost from memories of mankind,
things which stored forever in recollections of all beings.

Toba Beta

#31. It was in the waiting that a person experienced too much of himself. Memories, doubts, regrets, anxieties, the whole range of possibilities the future contained
they all swirled together in the mind like a soup.

Justin Cronin

#32. We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future.

Tom North

#33. Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Paulo Coelho

#34. I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.

Samantha Towle

#35. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

Corrie Ten Boom

#36. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.

Maddy Malhotra

#37. Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead? ... It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

Carl Sagan

#38. 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.

Edward R. Murrow

#39. People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#40. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

#41. The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Eckhart Tolle

#42. So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.

Cecelia Ahern

#43. But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man's journey towards his future.

Madeline Claire Franklin

#44. Though a new picture gives you a picture of how old you are, when you see the old pictures, you remember the young you!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Alan Watts

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

David Gerrold

#47. When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were possible. She said that the past was not static, our memories fold and bend, we change with every step taken into the future.

Madeleine Thien

#48. Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We are the sum of our memories.

Diane Ackerman

#49. There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts ... memories can't be enough.

Eiry Nieves

#50. I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

Raf Simons

#51. The past doesn't exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren't changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.

Martha Beck

#52. The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Yukio Mishima

#53. It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#54. In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

Anne Bogart

#55. Real life is the present moment - not the memories of the past which is dead and gone, nor the dreams of the future which is not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives the real life, and he is happiest.

Walpola Rahula

#56. Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

Gautama Buddha

#57. The first stone represents the past - worries, bad memories, remorse. Understand?" "I do," I say. "The second stone stands for the present. The third pebble is a wish for the future.

Mary Pat Kelly

#58. As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from the old memories but mustn't stay there and be stagnant for life is meant to let you move forward and not backwards.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#59. There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference
..Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.

Karen Marie Moning

#60. It is a signal feature of depression that, in times of trouble, sensible ideas, memories of good times, and optimism for the future all recede into blackness.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#61. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.

Christopher J. Nolan

#62. What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

Elie Wiesel

#63. The future is the keeper
of the memories of the past

Mario

#64. Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom.

Suzy Kassem

#65. He past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?..

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#66. Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#67. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

Tan Twan Eng

#68. The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#69. I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Alan Moore

#70. In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

Anthony Doerr

#71. Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
The past, the present, and the future time.
Thy reminiscences transport the soul
To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

Parley P. Pratt

#72. These are hard and uncertain times we're living in," he said. "You never know what will still be here tomorrow. That's why we must take joy every day in what we do have, so it's something we can carry in our memories when things change.

Jaye L. Knight

#73. [Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Elie Wiesel

#74. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Daniel Kahneman

#75. I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.

Roman Vishniac

#76. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Human Angels

#77. 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.

Thomas Hobbes

#78. Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

D.S. Mixell

#79. You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

Todd Edwards

#80. Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Joshua Foer

#81. In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Gustav Stresemann

#82. The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

Winston S. Churchill

#83. The future is created through memory.

Dacia Maraini

#84. All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and

Mark Twain

#85. Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past.

Auliq Ice

#86. Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together

Kiran Joshi

#87. What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

Theodore Zeldin

#88. I'd rather do something than read about it."
"That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*."
-pg 138-9

Dean Hughes

#89. Suddenly, no one, including me, was in Guescheste anymore; they weren't in Miami or Cuba; they weren't in the present, or the future, but floating somewhre in the formless, timeless space of memory.

Richard Blanco

#90. Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#91. We're all just memories of our future selves.

Reggie Watts

#92. Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#93. Time is spent never bought.
Minutes count when seconds blur.
Memories are past that's caught.
Imaginings are future's lure."

Cass and Silver Rainbow-

Vaun Murphrey

#94. What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.

Santosh Kalwar

#95. The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present.

Elizabeth Peters

#96. You are my destiny. My path less taken. You are my future. My home. You are my life.

My words are written on my skin, my heart. They're in ink and memories. Love me and let me love you. Be with me until we turn our final page.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#97. From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

Miguel De Unamuno

#98. In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

Wade Davis

#99. Wishes are memories coming from our future!

Rainer Maria Rilke

#100. Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Daniel Schacter