With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.
God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it.
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to the era of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned.
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. But it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. Everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. It is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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 there's some kind of change.
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
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