He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This...

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted...

The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

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

Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present,...

Yesterday is history,tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it present

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can’t live there. The cost is to high.

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

And I think that’s when we’re at our best — when we support each other. Not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we help each other to grow, when we...

I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it...

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the...

There were a lot of people out in the stores this past weekend, and from the looks of things, it seems like a lot of people have a lot of shopping left to do. It’s...

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books – not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today’s reader is smarter.

Hi, I’m from the future, and I’m here to destroy you.” But that is irrational. The future me isn’t out to destroy me, because the me of my past already did a thorough job demolishing...

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

Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, “On! on!” — but o’er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering...

Being a leader doesn’t mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu’il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

You can never go back to a specific moment. That’s why it’s important to live in the present and not the past. Don’t let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new...

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Coach Williams and I discussed this matter some time in the past and will talk again after both of us have had a chance to review the report. Coach Williams has a long and distinguished...

Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 percent last year. Sales in the first-half of this year have continued to be...

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

Reinsurance is an industry that has had a difficult time over the past few years, and we’re disappointed in our results, … We are committed to running ERC effectively for our investors. This includes profitability...

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

I stay focused for every match. I don’t look ahead or past anybody.

It’s something that I’ve been really excited about for the past week. I’ve kind of picked the brains of some friends on other teams – ‘Who did you vote for, what’s going on?’ – and...

There is no mystery to happiness.Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn- or worse, indifference-...

You can’t let the past ruin your future, I changed over in my mind.

I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned somehow. It hurts to think of it that way. And even though I...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

In physics, yes. In people, no.

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live...

I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant,...

TIME IS THE SOURCE OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies heonly appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people tocry...

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we...

I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I...

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that’s what caused me to be like this, it’s not my fault. Permit me to...

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some...

…the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now… To...

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are...