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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present. — Marianne Williamson

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment. — Walter Darby Bannard

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past. — Charles C. Mann

If you stand with one foot in the past and the other foot in the future, Matt, all you do is piss on the present. — P.J. Parrish

Photographs are facts, but not necessarily true ... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today. — Ai Weiwei

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all. — David Klass

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. — Barbara De Angelis

A spectator would conclude that I was living in the past. But I was very much living in the present. My present. — Fennel Hudson

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present. — Frank Herbert

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future. — Willie Dixon

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. — T.D. Jakes

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. — Cara Black

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. — Winston S. Churchill

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad. — Amber Valletta

That's why everyone focuses on the present and future. The past is too painful when you remember how lives end. Often abruptly. — Jodi Meadows

Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep. — Lysa TerKeurst

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past. — Elizabeth George

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal

The future influences the present just as much as the past. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Once it took so long for me to wrap a present that it became a past. — Dan Adams

The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough. — Criss Jami

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. — Donald J. Trump

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. — Mignon McLaughlin

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change. — Carlton Cuse

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad. — Laini Taylor

The past is the key to the present and an ice core is a door to that past. — James W. Mercer

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future. — Young Jeezy

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today. — Annette Thomas

It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it. — Linda Alfiori

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past. — Martin Buber

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. — George Eliot

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie — Marguerite Yourcenar

Learn from the past,
log the lessons from the past, but
leave the past! — Elizabeth George

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past. — Elizabeth Kostova

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. — Dan Harris

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

He lived decades ago,
she lives at the moment.
A very saddening reality for her. — S G

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. — Rajneesh

We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future. — Tom North

Your are not your past, you are not your future. You are right now. — Matthew Donnelly

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment — Gautama Buddha

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I can forgive a man's past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it's his religion. — Nicole Williams

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true. — Sathya Sai Baba

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on. — Vikrmn

You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your — Robert Holden

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future. — George Orwell

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. — Knute Rockne

Leave my past... come in the present (PLEASE). — Deyth Banger

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go. — Debasish Mridha

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. — Edward W. Said

The present defines the future. The future builds on the foundation of the past. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. — Paul Auster

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. — Juliette Binoche

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. — James Anthony Froude

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. — Peter Benchley

Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today. — Truth Devour

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. — Morris West

Forget the past and live the present hour. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come. — Sarah Waters

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now. — Oprah Winfrey

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. — Jerome Hines

loved my wife. Paige was part of my past, obviously part of Jack's present. — Carolyn Arnold

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton

The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past. — Beth Moore

Every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings. — Linda Sunshine

You gotta look backwards to go forwards. — Fennel Hudson

I believe we should only think of the past if it helps improve the present. If not, it's pure nostalgia. — Edney Silvestre

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. — William Blake

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell

The past is not lost. An image from years ago remained present somewhere in the fourth dimension and it reached you just in that moment. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment. — Jillian Lauren

Spread me like a sheet of paper. Write your life on mine. Fold past and present together like a letter. I am yours. — C.D. Reiss

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured. — Rick Warren

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. — Fritz Stern

Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present? — J.M. Coetzee

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be ... — Eckhart Tolle

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. — Swami Vivekananda

Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity. — Debasish Mridha

If the past is no longer present
is it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better. — Robert Moss

Remind yourself every now and again that you can and will do better than your past & present performance. — Sarvesh Jain

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. — Billy Corgan

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. — Augustine Of Hippo