124 Quotes About Past-and-future

I can catch a fly easily with my hand, the right one!

You and I both live in worlds long gone," Seto noted suddenly. "Most people see the world as three separate entities; a past to which we can never return, a confused present and a feared future. We realize it is one. The rolling and raging waves of today merely recoil back into the depths of the oceans past after touching the face of our future. It is still one world.

Past performance does not predict future results. That’s what financial institutions tell us. What if you were to believe that in your life? Learn from the past but don’t let its pain, mistakes, or trauma haunt your future.

You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not to see what you want to see, but what you must see. Otherwise you'll carry around that baggage for the rest of your life.

Maybe you think a lot about the past, when you haven't got much future in front of you.

Your past shapes, but does not predict your present.

If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter...A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.

Look back to move beyond and that is what is the present - it incorporates both the past and the future.

In their quest for the "real moment" some expect to grab hold of the singular instant that feels like a journey between the past and the future, between the land they know and a land they don't know. In their pursuit they hope to encounter that 'genuine' moment, that frail child of the fleeting time that leaves a scar in the memory.