Quotes About Bad Past Good Future

#1. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.

Farshad Asl

#3. Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

Daniel Egger

#4. No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#5. When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

Marilyn Vos Savant

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

Mark Twain

#7. Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Buffalo Bill

#8. I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

Matt Hasselbeck

#9. There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Alan Dean Foster

#10. The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Nelson Mandela

#11. Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

Andy Andrews

#12. You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future
a good future, a useful future
and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

Isaac Asimov

#13. Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future.

Daniel J. Siegel

#14. The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

Wilkie Collins

#15. Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.

Ellen Hopkins

#16. ...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.

Morgan Rhodes

#17. I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

Jean Ferris

#18. The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

Palle Oswald

#19. Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Smart People no think about a bad past or what can happen, but look for a good future to reprobate the happen things and clear it with a smile.

Jan Jansen

#21. The wild is where you find it, not in some distant world relegated to a nostalgic past or an idealized future; its presence is not black or white, bad or good, corrupted or innocent... We are of that nature, not apart from it. We survive because of it, not instead of it.

Renee Askins

#22. All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

Max Lucado

#23. He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

Stephen Dobyns

#24. They'd manage. Her ghost from the future had said so. He'd been right about the bad coming. Now she had to trust good would come as well.

Jackie French

#25. Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Amber Valletta

#26. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

Abraham Lincoln

#27. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#28. Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

Earl Nightingale

#29. You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things

Jeroen Saey

#30. I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.

John James Cowperthwaite

#31. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don't plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up.

Nana Awere Damoah

#32. My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

Hugh Howey

#33. Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

Francis Atterbury

#34. My real nature, my real self, wanted that person to believe in me, to see the good, ignore the bad, and make me feel like I had a future.

Karina Halle

#35. I am grateful to God for all the good and bad that has given me, Without reproach the past, without waiting in the future I continue, just living in the moment makes me completely happy!

Ebelsain Villegas

#36. When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can't just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#37. The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#38. No one knows the future, yet we can't stop guessing while expecting of only the good, and not the bad or even both.

Auliq Ice

#39. Your future can be changed by one decision. One good thing can offset a mountain of bad. But you need to choose.

Jennifer Probst

#40. Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

Narendra Modi

#41. People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

Angelina Jolie

#42. It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Ellen DeGeneres

#43. Break any ties - good or bad, emotional or spiritual - with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Stormie O'martian

#44. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Chuck Palahniuk