Quotes about Past and Present

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. Votes: 2

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. Votes: 2

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Votes: 2

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. Votes: 2

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music. Votes: 2

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight. Votes: 2

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim. Votes: 2

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men. Votes: 2

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us. Votes: 2

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . . Votes: 2

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul Votes: 2

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present. Votes: 2

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia. Votes: 2

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times. Votes: 2

There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied. Votes: 2

Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it. Votes: 2

I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility. Votes: 2

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. Votes: 2

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. Votes: 2

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. Votes: 1

My works are an imitation of my own past and present. Votes: 1

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. Votes: 1

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback. Votes: 1

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. Votes: 1

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future. Votes: 1

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past. Votes: 1

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. Votes: 1

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. Votes: 1

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Votes: 1

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Votes: 1

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing. Votes: 1

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Votes: 1

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. Votes: 1

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Votes: 1

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future. Votes: 1

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Past happiness augments present wretchedness. Votes: 0

Past tears are present strength. Votes: 0

The present necessarily betrays the past. Votes: 0

Time goes from present to past. Votes: 0

The past has to inform the present Votes: 0

The past has to inform the present. Votes: 0

Fuck the past. This was the present. Votes: 0

The past is pregnant with the present. Votes: 0

Every present anger derives from past weakness. Votes: 0

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present. Votes: 0

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. Votes: 0

Remembering the past gives power to the present. Votes: 0

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past. Votes: 0

Present has always been in comparison with past. Votes: 0

The past informs our present and our future. Votes: 0

Forget the past and live the present hour. Votes: 0

The present is the key to the past. Votes: 0

The present is the key to the past Votes: 0

The past is the father of the present. Votes: 0

Theirs is the present who can praise the past. Votes: 0

The past does not define, you the present does. Votes: 0

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable Votes: 0

Accept the past; embrace the present; consider the future. Votes: 0

History is past politics, and politics is present history. Votes: 0

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future, Votes: 0

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past. Votes: 0

Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh! Votes: 0

There exist continuation of time; past, present and future. Votes: 0

The present grows within the boundaries of the past. Votes: 0

The past is always a rebuke to the present. Votes: 0

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future. Votes: 0

The whole past is the procession of the present. Votes: 0

Jesus never consults your past to determine your present. Votes: 0

The past has no power over the present moment. Votes: 0

The present is burthened too much with the past. Votes: 0

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present. Votes: 0

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps. Votes: 0

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. Votes: 0

The past is what the present is doing now. Votes: 0

The present is the past biting into the future. Votes: 0

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. Votes: 0

Why ruin the present by talking about the past? Votes: 0

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present. Votes: 0

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. Votes: 0

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future. Votes: 0

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom. Votes: 0

I've never really had a favorite player, past or present. Votes: 0

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. Votes: 0

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present. Votes: 0

You have to know the past to understand the present. Votes: 0

Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey Votes: 0

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. Votes: 0

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. Votes: 0

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future. Votes: 0

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime. Votes: 0

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. Votes: 0

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present. Votes: 0

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Votes: 0

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present. Votes: 0

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. Votes: 0

The future influences the present just as much as the past. Votes: 0

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. Votes: 0

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. Votes: 0

You can only understand the present age when it is past. Votes: 0

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too. Votes: 0

I write with my past, about the future, for the present Votes: 0

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. Votes: 0

To live in the past is to die in the present. Votes: 0

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present? Votes: 0

The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last Votes: 0

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West. Votes: 0

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present. Votes: 0

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. Votes: 0

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. Votes: 0

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present. Votes: 0

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present. Votes: 0

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. Votes: 0

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. Votes: 0

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles. Votes: 0

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Votes: 0

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. Votes: 0

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. Votes: 0

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. Votes: 0

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. Votes: 0

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future. Votes: 0

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present. Votes: 0

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. Votes: 0

The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed. Votes: 0

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. Votes: 0

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. Votes: 0

Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present! Votes: 0

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past. Votes: 0

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present. Votes: 0

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future. Votes: 0

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. Votes: 0

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice. Votes: 0

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present. Votes: 0

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. Votes: 0

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. Votes: 0

Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present! Votes: 0

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found. Votes: 0

Learn from the past, live in the present and create your future. Votes: 0

learn from the past live in the present plan for the future Votes: 0

Learn from the past but use the present to create the future. Votes: 0

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present. Votes: 0

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. Votes: 0

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present. Votes: 0

Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present. Votes: 0

I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain. Votes: 0

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. Votes: 0

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present. Votes: 0

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. Votes: 0

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. Votes: 0

I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. Votes: 0

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present Votes: 0

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future. Votes: 0

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Votes: 0

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past. Votes: 0

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. Votes: 0

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. Votes: 0

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past. Votes: 0

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. Votes: 0

With best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future. Votes: 0

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. Votes: 0

With best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future. Votes: 0

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. Votes: 0

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. Votes: 0

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Votes: 0

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present. Votes: 0

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you. Votes: 0

The future is nothing but a reflection of the present and the past. Votes: 0

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. Votes: 0

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. Votes: 0

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past. Votes: 0

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant. Votes: 0

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice. Votes: 0

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present. Votes: 0

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past. Votes: 0

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. Votes: 0

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. Votes: 0

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. Votes: 0

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. Votes: 0

He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future. Votes: 0

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present. Votes: 0

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. Votes: 0

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. Votes: 0

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. Votes: 0

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. Votes: 0

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past. Votes: 0

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. Votes: 0

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy. Votes: 0

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist. Votes: 0

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. Votes: 0

Your accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success. Votes: 0

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. Votes: 0

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. Votes: 0

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present. Votes: 0

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present. Votes: 0

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Votes: 0

Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment. Votes: 0

Last Christmas someone stole my present. I've spent this year living in the past. Votes: 0

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past. Votes: 0

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. Votes: 0

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt Votes: 0

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Votes: 0

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. Votes: 0

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Votes: 0

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present. Votes: 0

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. Votes: 0

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. Votes: 0

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present. Votes: 0

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past. Votes: 0

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future. Votes: 0

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. Votes: 0

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. Votes: 0

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. Votes: 0

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. Votes: 0

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. Votes: 0

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. Votes: 0

Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace. Votes: 0

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost. Votes: 0

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it. Votes: 0

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10% Votes: 0

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future; Votes: 0

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. Votes: 0

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. Votes: 0

People exiled in past and disowning present may build wealth but not future in life Votes: 0

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained. Votes: 0

The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION. Votes: 0

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future Votes: 0

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present Votes: 0

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. Votes: 0

Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads. Votes: 0

I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present. Votes: 0

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. Votes: 0

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. Votes: 0

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities. Votes: 0

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. Votes: 0

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. Votes: 0

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it. Votes: 0

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Votes: 0

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present. Votes: 0

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. Votes: 0

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance. Votes: 0

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life. Votes: 0

The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present. Votes: 0

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. Votes: 0

To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory Votes: 0

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. Votes: 0

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Votes: 0

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once. Votes: 0

Jesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE. Votes: 0

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. Votes: 0

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past Votes: 0

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. Votes: 0

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. Votes: 0

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. Votes: 0

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future. Votes: 0

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future. Votes: 0

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present. Votes: 0

We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. Votes: 0

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past. Votes: 0

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. Votes: 0

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible... Votes: 0

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. Votes: 0

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. Votes: 0

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. Votes: 0

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present. Votes: 0

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude. Votes: 0

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. Votes: 0

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Votes: 0

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? Votes: 0

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future. Votes: 0

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. Votes: 0

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. Votes: 0

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. Votes: 0

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present. Votes: 0

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future. Votes: 0

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. Votes: 0

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be... Votes: 0

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. Votes: 0

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future. Votes: 0

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present. Votes: 0

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past. Votes: 0

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. Votes: 0

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. Votes: 0

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use. Votes: 0

My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future. Votes: 0

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part? Votes: 0

Your past, present, and future are taken care of as you put your trust in Jesus. Votes: 0

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. Votes: 0

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. Votes: 0

I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future. Votes: 0

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present. Votes: 0

Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present. Votes: 0

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. Votes: 0

The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written. Votes: 0

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future, Votes: 0

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. Votes: 0

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. Votes: 0

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future. Votes: 0

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future. Votes: 0

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. Votes: 0

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future. Votes: 0

We should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past. Votes: 0

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. Votes: 0

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself. Votes: 0

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured. Votes: 0

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. Votes: 0

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. Votes: 0

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. Votes: 0

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past. Votes: 0

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Votes: 0

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. Votes: 0

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. Votes: 0

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? Votes: 0

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. Votes: 0

Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on. Votes: 0

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning. Votes: 0

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future. Votes: 0

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future. Votes: 0

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Votes: 0

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption. Votes: 0

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. Votes: 0

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future. Votes: 0

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. Votes: 0

dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side Votes: 0

If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future? Votes: 0

I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. Votes: 0

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry. Votes: 0

A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past. Votes: 0

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. Votes: 0

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. Votes: 0

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present". Votes: 0

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past. Votes: 0

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. Votes: 0

Omg! To the past.Omg! To the present. Omg! To the future. It's life. Don't give up! Votes: 0

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been. Votes: 0

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. Votes: 0

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment. Votes: 0

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. Votes: 0

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. Votes: 0

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. Votes: 0

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. Votes: 0

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. Votes: 0

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does Votes: 0

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. Votes: 0

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future. Votes: 0

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. Votes: 0

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. Votes: 0

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. Votes: 0

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. Votes: 0

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. Votes: 0

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Votes: 0

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. Votes: 0

Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future. Votes: 0

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future. Votes: 0

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present." Votes: 0

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. Votes: 0

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present. Votes: 0

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past. Votes: 0

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future. Votes: 0

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. Votes: 0

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future. Votes: 0

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. Votes: 0

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. Votes: 0

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. Votes: 0

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. Votes: 0

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. Votes: 0

Live in the present as if the future is going to become the past that you have changed. Votes: 0

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present. Votes: 0

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. Votes: 0

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future. Votes: 0

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present. Votes: 0

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed. Votes: 0

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present. Votes: 0

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. Votes: 0

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. Votes: 0

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. Votes: 0

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. Votes: 0

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give. Votes: 0

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Votes: 0

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. Votes: 0

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. Votes: 0

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind. Votes: 0

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. Votes: 0

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Votes: 0

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future. Votes: 0

One could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future. Votes: 0

If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present. Votes: 0

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. Votes: 0

When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition. Votes: 0

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. Votes: 0

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? Votes: 0

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. Votes: 0

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. Votes: 0

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. Votes: 0

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. Votes: 0

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present. Votes: 0

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. Votes: 0

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing. Votes: 0

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present. Votes: 0

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible. Votes: 0

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Votes: 0

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real. Votes: 0

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last. Votes: 0

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten! Votes: 0

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present. Votes: 0

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past. Votes: 0

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. Votes: 0

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power. Votes: 0

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. Votes: 0

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today. Votes: 0

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future. Votes: 0

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Votes: 0

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. Votes: 0

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present Votes: 0

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. Votes: 0

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future. Votes: 0

Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be. Votes: 0

Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. Votes: 0

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable Votes: 0

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. Votes: 0

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. Votes: 0

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory. Votes: 0

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. Votes: 0

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. Votes: 0

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour Votes: 0

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Votes: 0

Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now. Votes: 0

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. Votes: 0

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. Votes: 0

It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future. Votes: 0

To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future. Votes: 0

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. Votes: 0

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present Votes: 0

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Votes: 0

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present. Votes: 0

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. Votes: 0

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? Votes: 0

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. Votes: 0

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Votes: 0

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Votes: 0

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future. Votes: 0

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking. Votes: 0

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present. Votes: 0

The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point. Votes: 0

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. Votes: 0

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Votes: 0

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future Votes: 0

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present. Votes: 0

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present. Votes: 0

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once. Votes: 0

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. Votes: 0

You owe it to your inner-self to never allow your past to take the place of your present or future. Votes: 0

For the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time! Votes: 0

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present Votes: 0

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore. Votes: 0

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future. Votes: 0

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future. Votes: 0

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. Votes: 0

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. Votes: 0

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. Votes: 0

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution. Votes: 0

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. Votes: 0

Past is over, please don't open the door for it again. It will kidnap the present from under your nose Votes: 0

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment. Votes: 0

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. Votes: 0

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present. Votes: 0

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. Votes: 0

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present. Votes: 0

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Votes: 0

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Votes: 0

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present Votes: 0

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Votes: 0

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future. Votes: 0

If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be. Votes: 0

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present. Votes: 0

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. Votes: 0

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will. Votes: 0

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Votes: 0

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. Votes: 0

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. Votes: 0

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. Votes: 0

My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it. Votes: 0

Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future Votes: 0

The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change. Votes: 0

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past Votes: 0

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present. Votes: 0

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer. Votes: 0

Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy. Votes: 0

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present. Votes: 0

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not? Votes: 0

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken. Votes: 0

Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. Votes: 0

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present. Votes: 0

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present. Votes: 0

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future. Votes: 0