Top 100 Live In The Future Not The Past Quotes
#1. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
Wendell Berry
#3. Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.
LadyTiara
#4. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Carlos Slim
#5. We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.
Paul McAuley
#6. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
#7. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.
Matthew A. DeBettencourt
#8. Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.
Theresa Cheung
#9. Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it's even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.
John A. Ashley
#10. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.
Walter Percy
#11. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!
Debasish Mridha
#12. starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses.
Elena Ferrante
#13. I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. Yet
Will Schwalbe
#14. We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
H.G.Wells
#15. If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
Therese De Lisieux
#16. In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people were tempted to live in the future, they quickly gave it up, as far as possible, suffering the wounds that the imagination eventually inflicts on those who trust in it.
Albert Camus
#17. But Alfred could not live long. He was already an old man, well past forty years, and now he was looking to the future. He
Bernard Cornwell
#18. They had their past to remember, the present to live in and the future to fear.
Jose Saramago
#19. Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
Pope John Paul II
#21. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley
#22. The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Ian Jack
#23. That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.
Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.
David Baldacci
#24. You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you
Sunday Adelaja
#25. The meeting of two eternities, the past and future ... is precisely the present moment.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. The streets are full of in-betweens, and no one is alarmed by the ghosts that live among us. Everyone here knows that the past inhabits the future. For now, I'm home.
Katie Gilmartin
#27. You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.
Rachel Caine
#28. Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.
Albert Einstein
#29. Remember the past and work for the future...
But never forget to live today!
Carlo Jose San Juan
#30. There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward - toward what?
Laini Taylor
#31. Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.
Geezer Butler
#32. All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW
Michelle Warren
#33. We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
Judy Grahn
#34. If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?
Truman Capote
#35. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#36. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#37. Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
Alan Lightman
#39. Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we dream the future?
Truman Capote
#40. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#41. You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
John Steinbeck
#42. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.
Denis Johnson
#43. Our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any one of us as are the present and the past.
Dean Koontz
#44. That's the problem with all of us. We've never time to think about the past, and we're always planning for the future. And since the future's always the future, we never live in the present.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#45. Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
Sivananda
#46. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Rick Pitino
#47. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#48. There are tenses that define us now: past tense, back then; future tense, not yet. We live in the small window between them, the space we've only recently come to think as still, and really it's no smaller than anyone else's window.
Margaret Atwood
#49. The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.
Jacob Braude
#50. Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?
Alex Steffen
#51. Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Anna Freud
#53. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
Edmund Burke
#54. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
Subramanya Bharathi
#55. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
Charles Dickens
#56. I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.
Wendy Mass
#57. She must continue to live life one day at a time. Neither the past nor the future existed for Eva.
She clenched her fist around her reins, drilling in the words she must never forget: 'there can only be the now.
Amy Jarecki
#58. You Plan what your past will be, Then live your future like is was created on purpose.
Joe Goodrich
#59. Confront your past, live in the present, and look forward to the future.
Mary A. Perez
#60. Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.
Tony Robbins
#61. Make a conscious effort to live in the present today. When you catch yourself obsessing over the past or worrying about the future just remember you are exactly where you need to be right now.
Demi Lovato
#62. Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
Petra Nemcova
#63. Don't worry about the past, it's only a shadow wanting to follow you under the brilliance of the sun. And the future is only the moon, still glowing in honor of the sun. Live in the moment and embrace where life takes you.
Jes Fuhrmann
#64. You have to live in the future, not the past.
Gordon Brown
#65. We live and die by our stories if we don't rewrite our own history. The past is merely what we make of it, the future ours to create. Rewrite revise, erase.
Sheryl Mallory-Johnson
#67. There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.
Jonathan Larson
#68. Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
Russell Targ
#69. Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
William DeWitt Hyde
#70. The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#71. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W. Dyer
#73. Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
Meher Baba
#74. True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.
Deepak Chopra
#75. Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.
Frank Herbert
#76. He was refusing to be beaten by the past or crushed by the future. He was living, as a man ought to live, every fibre of him, in the only moment he ever really possesses - this moment!
David Grayson
#77. When you see your life through the eyes of a dinosaur, albeit parrot, that's when you truly see the magic of God here and now. Stop questioning the past and live in the moment to strive for a better, more promising future. We're all born to make a difference.
Jes Fuhrmann
#78. I shall not dwell in the past ...
I shall not dread the present ...
I shall not fear the Future ...
For as Long as I live ...
I shall only think of success.
Oscar Trejo Jr.
#79. It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert
#80. To live is to change, to change is to let go of the past and welcome the future.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
Rebecca McNutt
#82. 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.
Sai Baba
#83. There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.
Brad Meltzer
#84. Our cultural roots are the most ancient in the world. The spiritual concepts of our Ancestors gave birth to religious thought African people believe in the oneness of the African family through sacred time, which unites the past, the present and the future. Our Ancestors live with us.
Marimba Ani
#85. It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
#86. Forgive the past, love and live the present, and welcome the future.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.
Rajneesh
#88. 2014 Resolution: Remember the past with truth, look to the future with passon, but live for the now.
B.K. Birch
#89. When you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.
Will Schwalbe
#90. I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% sure that they are killed in the time, we live in the future and they are killed in the past... so far a time teleport used by the adults!
Deyth Banger
#92. The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
Ray Kurzweil
#93. Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday ... becomes now!
Denis Waitley
#94. We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
Philip Yancey
#95. Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#96. 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
#97. The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.
David Millar
#98. L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
Shannon L. Alder
#99. At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Mark Batterson
#100. Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why is it, that when we've just started to live, we grow dull, gray, uninteresting, lazy, useless, with flattened-out souls?
Sarah Ruhl
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