Quotes About The Future And Forgetting The Past

#1. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.

Everly Drummond

#2. Memory really matters ... only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

Italo Calvino

#3. I think it took me this long to realize what moving on meant. It doesn't mean forgetting what you've left behind. It means making her a memory and deciding to have a future without her in it." "Wow.

Vi Keeland

#4. Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.

Alen Sargsyan

#5. And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

Perry Christie

#6. The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. Everything started as nothing.

Auliq Ice

#8. The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward.
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Catherine Anderson

#9. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

Alice Hoffman

#10. Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting the unseen horizons beyond.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Malin Akerman

#12. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

Nancy Astor

#14. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#15. When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

Curtis Jackson

#16. Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?

Christina Engela

#17. Crossing the line isn't about forgetting the people we love. It's about not letting our past sorrow steal our future joy.

Deanna Roy

#18. I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

Ryan Gosling

#19. People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present.

Tim I. Gurung

#20. I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#21. Engineers are funny animals. If you tell an engineer about a problem, any problem, his first instinct is to measure it. Tell an engineer you don't love him anymore and he'll ask for a graph of your love over time so that he can understand exactly how big the problem is and when it started.

Phil Lapsley

#22. Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

Jane Gardam

#23. 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

#24. Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

James Nesbitt

#25. You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin