Past And Future Quotes

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

~ Eleanor Brown

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

~ Amit Ray

Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.

~ Grace Sara

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

~ Grace Sara

Find your bones. Believe in what you are.

~ Grace Sara

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

~ Grace Sara

Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.

~ Grace Sara

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

~ Grace Sara

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

~ Grace Sara

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

~ Grace Sara

It is not so much about fighting against the ego, it is more about harmonizing with it.

~ Grace Sara

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

~ Grace Sara

Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You don’t exist in the past or in the future. You only exist in the present moment.

~ Debasish Mridha

We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.

~ Suzanne Woods Fisher

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Humans recognize the duality, autonomy, and latitude range of the mind and the body, and all humans comprehend their impending mortality. Unlike other animals, humankind knows despair brought about by understanding the inevitability of death of all living creatures. The radius of human thought touching upon the longitude of our transient existence causes infinite pain. Seeking to ameliorate existential anguish incites us to ponder spiritual matters, and this sphere of mental activity spurs us to contemplate the perimeter of unknown frontiers. Our ability to understand the compass of life and death allows us to view the circumference of the world as consisting of a past, a present, and a future in relation to our own lives. How a person views the range of their earthly life and how a person rationalizes their march towards a deathly outback creates a system of beliefs that separate people into classes, and the variations amongst class members’ belief systems supplements who we think we are.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

~ Kage Baker

Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.

~ T.f. Hodge

From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping attempt at Aura Lee, interrupted every few notes by unplanned squeaks and howls. Nevertheless the beautiful and familiar tune was impervious to poor performance, and Inman thought how painfully young it sounded, as if the pattern of its notes allowed no room to imagine a future clouded and tangled and diminished.

~ Charles Frazier

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

~ Leslie T. Chang

Your past success is a foundation into future success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

~ Alice Hoffman

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.

~ Jason Micheal Ratliff

The past is never dead. It's not even past, if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

~ Greg Iles

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

~ María Dueñas

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

~ Ashim Shanker

Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze ofit used to be likes forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it p. 20

~ David Brazzeal

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

~ T.s. Eliot

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

~ Katherine Marsh

It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.

~ John A. Ashley