124 Quotes About Past-and-future

Be excited for each new day. Sometimes hurt from our past, try to make its way into the start of a new day. We cannot live the past, only in our minds, so let go, no matter how hurtful. God wants us all to live in abundance, glorifying his love and our love for others. This day is a brand new day, a God given gift.

Your past has forgotten you, your future is waiting for you.

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

He was acutely aware then that he was closer to his future than he was with the memories of his past.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.

—Los pensamientos son reales —sentenció—. las palabras son reales. Todo lo humano es real, y aveces conocemos las cosas antes de que ocurran, aun cuando no seamos consientes de ello. Vivimos en el presente, pero el futuro está siempre en nosotros. Puede que el escribir se reduzca a eso, Sid. No a consignar los hechos del pasado, sino a hacer que ocurran cosas en el futuro.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.