Top 1200 Past Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

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

The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

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

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

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

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting!

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

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

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

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.