Top 1200 Past And Present Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

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

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

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

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

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

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

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

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

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

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

I don't miss what has passed. I am enjoying the present. I am not one of those people who live in the past.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

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

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

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

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

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

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

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

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

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

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

Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.

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

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

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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

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

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

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

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.