Top 100 Quotes About Present Future Past
#1. Present effects are due to karmic causes from the past. However, future effects arise from the causes we make in the present. It is always the present that counts.
Daisaku Ikeda
#2. Maybe relationships were a force of forward motion, creating something new out of the present and future, until eventually that became shared past.
Anonymous
#3. 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.
Louise J. Kaplan
#4. 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
#5. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. He once told an interviewer, "I'm impatient with the past and irritable with the present. The future is where my concern lies, and I'm very optimistic about it.
Sharon M. Moen
#7. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
#8. You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.
It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
Stefan Molyneux
#9. Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana
#10. Who we are at any given moment is a combination of our past experiences, present situation, and potential future.
Erica Ridley
#11. In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#12. 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
#13. I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.
Taraka Larson
#14. 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
#15. The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.
Cecil Palmer
#16. There is no past, memory paints it,' " the pope recited. " 'There is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us.
David I. Kertzer
#17. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.
Walter Percy
#18. Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#19. Women feel lonely, they remember the past and start thinking about the present or the future. However, men feel lonely so he gets horny
Various
#20. Every soul has a past
Every soul lives a present
And every soul deserve a future
no judging on one's past
because its might be your future
Hlovate
#21. The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of the future
ABC
#22. Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Rick Warren
#23. The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.
S. Nassir Ghaemi
#24. 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
#25. The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#26. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
Dan Millman
#27. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
Kate Chopin
#28. [O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.
Naomi Klein
#29. 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
#30. The present is the instant in which the future crumbles into the past.
Jorge Luis Borges
#31. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Oscar Wilde
#32. I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
Anton Walbrook
#33. This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present ... Please leave your message after the tone."
Bill Bailey
#34. Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
Pope John Paul II
#35. Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary.
Catherine Lowell
#36. Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#37. Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.
Rajneesh
#38. They had their past to remember, the present to live in and the future to fear.
Jose Saramago
#39. My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.
Padre Pio
#40. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#41. The ghost of a smile appeared on her face. Learn to love the moment you are in. Treasure your experiences, for precious moments too quickly pass you by, and if you are always rushing toward the future, or pining for the past, you will forget to enjoy and appreciate the present.
Colleen Houck
#42. History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
Aidan Chambers
#43. The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.
Cath Crowley
#44. Friends, family, school, work, love, hate, past, present, future, success, disappointment ... everything has its place on the scale. And without the lows, even those deep, dark, heartbreak-style lows, you can never appreciate how truly amazing the highs can be.
Love Maia
#45. Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. 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
#47. Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Jean De La Bruyere
#48. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#49. Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.
Seb Kirby
#50. It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
Carlton Cuse
#51. The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead
#52. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts
#53. 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
#54. He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.
Marcus Aurelius
#55. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Harry Browne
#56. Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.
LadyTiara
#57. Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
Adam Johnson
#58. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.
Robert A. Heinlein
#59. I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I could feel. About the present, it was better to be stoical; about the future - such a future as mine - to be dead.
Charlotte Bronte
#60. 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
#61. You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.
Paulo Coelho
#62. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
#63. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
Sloan Wilson
#64. 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
#65. When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.
Rick Warren
#66. Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.
Frederic Martel?
#67. You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.
Robert Kiyosaki
#68. History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel De Cervantes
#69. The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!
Spencer Johnson
#70. The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.
Aliya Whiteley
#71. Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#72. The past is kind enough to give you lessons. The present is kind enough to give you opportunities. The future is kind enough to give you both.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert Kennedy
#75. Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
Marianne Williamson
#76. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
#77. The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Guy De Maupassant
#78. Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.
Pushpa Rana
#79. Life is not always about a past filled with mysteries or a future filled with endless dark possibilities ... it is also about a present filled with timeless distractions.
Con Template
#80. A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
#81. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.
H.E. Davey
#82. A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
John Steinbeck
#83. I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#84. The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#85. The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.
Erika Robuck
#86. 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
#87. New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.
Michel De Certeau
#88. You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unreachable. The string ahead is the future. But the only moment we inhabit, the only moment where we can act, is the present, the point where the flame burns, the point where time touches eternity.
Brandon Mull
#89. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
Augusto Boal
#90. The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Jurgen Moltmann
#91. Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#92. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
#93. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag
#94. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.
Roshan Sharma
#95. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
John F. Kennedy
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.
Laini Taylor
#99. The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.
Kazuaki Tanahashi
#100. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
Frederick Douglass
