Top 100 Quotes About Past And Present Life
#1. Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
Paule Marshall
#2. 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
#3. But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.
Seneca.
#4. Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.
Deepak Chopra
#5. But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing
Too present to imagine.
Robert Frost
#6. I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.
Vera Wang
#7. 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
#8. Forgive the past, love and live the present, and welcome the future.
Debasish Mridha
#9. If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you're enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you begin to relinquish your past and renew your present.
Sue Augustine
#10. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#11. This girl, this impossibly sweet girl, was his present and his future, despite his past. Fate had to be smiling at him. He couldn't imagine life without this dark haired beauty. Those beautiful hazel eyes reached into his heart and took hold.
Shayna Varadeaux
#12. So many people from my past taught me that it's not everyone that's in my life wants to see me achieve my goals and be great, but I thank God they're no longer in my life because I moved on a long time ago, welcome to my present.
Werley Nortreus
#13. The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
Martin Seligman
#14. The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
John Kuypers
#15. The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#16. The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
John Sentamu
#17. The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.
Michelle Malkin
#18. Conscious dreaming allows us to fold time and travel into the future or the past, as well as explore other life experiences. Beyond all of this, it may allow us to be present at the place of creation - the plane on which the events and circumstances of physical life are born.
Robert Moss
#19. 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
#20. Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present ... today.
Steve Maraboli
#22. Someone - a Latin poet - had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.
Winston Graham
#23. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.
Elizabeth Kim
#24. I like to compare my mental stress capacity to a dinner plate. Most people have moderate amounts of stress in their life, like a nice balanced meal. The food represents different stresses that occur in our lives, past and present.
L.K. Elliott
#25. I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.
Robert Muller
#26. In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with
uncertainty, I learned to make peace with the present by unknowingly
breaking love lines to the past. Growing up in a landscape of
improvised dreams and abstract national longings, everything felt
temporary to me.
Susan Abulhawa
#27. The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#28. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering
Ida Scott Taylor
#29. Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.
Debasish Mridha
#30. To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.
Todd Stocker
#31. You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.
Oswald Spengler
#32. Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Isaac Marion
#33. I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
John Clare
#35. There is always a reason behind actions, and there is always a reason behind the bitter or better actions we take each moment of time! No matter how bitter or better the past has been or the present is becoming, there is a reason for action! Awake and take action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.
Haruki Murakami
#37. The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
Jorge Luis Borges
#38. I don't think we ever really live in the present; instead, we're either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That's where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.
Jonathan Hull
#39. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.
Mark Williams
#40. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#41. It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#42. Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.
Alberto Villoldo
#44. No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
Roy T. Bennett
#45. Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand ... Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.
Marcus Aurelius
#48. After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.
Alexandre Dumas
#49. I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life
Manu
#50. Our lives are like single threads meticulously woven together - the result an exquisite tapestry of past, present, and future. Bound by unflappable trust, our hearts, our desires, her life woven into mine.
Jillian Dodd
#51. The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.
Nicholas Sparks
#52. Embrace Change Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JOHN F. KENNEDY Thirty-fifth president of the United States
Jack Canfield
#53. Time ...
Once it's gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future ...
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.
Michelle Horst
#54. All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#55. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
Sol Luckman
#56. the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#57. That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar ... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
Kamila Shamsie
#58. I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your life trying to outrun it or you can stop running, turn around and look it inthe face. i've stared down my past, and now i'm moving on.I am more than my past.I am my future and it belings to me.
Lauren Blakely
#59. Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.
Paulo Coelho
#60. When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.
Eckhart Tolle
#61. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.
Emily Murdoch
#62. Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
Varley O'Connor
#64. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#65. Forgive the past and let it go with great gratitude. It will allow us to embrace present and future with love, enthusiasm and passion.
Debasish Mridha
#66. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The
Soren Kierkegaard
#67. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.
Walter Percy
#68. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.
Ideaswar
#69. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?
Claire Contreras
#70. Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Bette Davis
#71. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
John Cusack
#72. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones
#73. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
Janet Morris
#74. 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Jules Verne
#75. 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
#76. Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.
LadyTiara
#77. By letting go of the past with love and gratitude, I am creating beautiful memories, which are living in me, but I am living at present not in memories.
Debasish Mridha
#79. In all his life - past, present and future - Hardy knew he would never find another person that set his body, his heart and his soul on fire the way that Miracle did.
M. Leighton
#80. The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.
Hermann Hesse
#81. When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
John Phillips Marquand
#82. Strange how when you're young you have no memories ... Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.
Douglas Coupland
#83. The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.
Anthony Liccione
#84. When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
Garrett Hedlund
#85. Memory is that element in our consciousness that connects the past with the present. If we had no memory, there would be only one moment of our life, the moment we call now, and we would never consciously recognize more than this single moment.
Gustaf Stromberg
#86. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.
Steve Maraboli
#87. Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.
James P. Krehbiel
#88. Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?
Kahlil Gibran
#89. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#90. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#91. Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out.
Toni Morrison
#92. The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.
Amin Maalouf
#93. Practice living every moment of your daily life deeply and in freedom. If that's what you really want, then what you need to do is let go of pursuing the past, the future, and all your worries, and come back to the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#94. sometimes she felt that it was necessary for her very existence that she should free herself from the past; at others, that the past had completely displaced the present, which, when one resumed life after a morning among the dead, proved to be of an utterly thin and inferior composition.
Virginia Woolf
#95. - I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.
- I believe that dreams can become reality.
- I believe in true love.
- I believe in kindness and intelligence.
- I trust life, regardless.
Elysse Poetis
#96. Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.
Larry Atchley Jr.
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.
Michael E. Moseley
#100. Don't be afraid to let your past and present come together to create something new
Michelle D. Argyle
