Future And Present Quotes - Page 2

• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Inspiring, Wise

  Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

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• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Future, Happy Accidents, Used

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• Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

  George Harrison

  Time, Future, Carpe Diem

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• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Life, Relationship

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Garden

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Children have neither past nor future;
  they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Baby, Time

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• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Live In The Moment

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• There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Time, Live In The Moment, Important

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• The past does not equal the future.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Humorous, Future

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2009

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• The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

  Lisa Unger

  Past, Mystery, Present Future

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• Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

  Adam Young

  Reality, Lovely, Live In The Moment

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past, Looks, One Tree Hill Love

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Regret, Opportunity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Live In The Moment, Past Present Future, Mindfulness

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Live In The Moment, Past Present Future, Want

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Past, Rushing

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• "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Time, Future, Forecasting

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