Top 1200 Past Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

I've tried to plan for my future in the past and it doesn't always work out the way I want it to, so leave it all up to the man upstairs.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on its axis but they say you don't feel it, you can't experience it. But to feel it is to be scared and happy at once and to know that nothing matters but that you do what you want to do and what you do you are. And I knew I was moving into the future. There is not PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or ever to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

The best progressive policies are constructed by learning from past experiences while striving toward a more equitable future.

Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I’m not going to let the past destroy my future. I’m pressing on. I’m straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.

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

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

It's important to refresh the way of thinking and doing things musically. You can get so stuck in what you've done in the past that you can't move on into the future.

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.