Top 1200 Past And Present Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

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

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future.

I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

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

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

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm from the future, I'm from the past, but I'm also from the present, because I'm a gift.

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

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

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.

Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only so-so, in a lukewarm way. There has been no intensity, no passion. You have been moving like a somnambulist, a sleepwalker. So that past hangs, and the future creates fear. And between the past and the future is crushed your present, the only reality.

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

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

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

It's better to keep your past and present loves separate.

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

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

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

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

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

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

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

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

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