If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao TzuDon’t let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will RogersDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
BuddhaIn books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas CarlyleHe who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past
George OrwellThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
BuddhaHappy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Arnold H. GlasowThe timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranOur consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
Alan WattsIn the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak ChopraLet go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
Leo BuscagliaYesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother TeresaIt isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Paulo CoelhoPast and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
Paulo CoelhoWe are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
Alan WattsThey say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
Dr. SeussI can only note that the past is beautiful, because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia WoolfI love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
Paul McCartneyOne's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeYesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranI was adored once too.
William ShakespeareYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFor my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillSometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck PalahniukThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert EinsteinThe discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason CooleyI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonI love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteStop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne DyerWhat is past is prologue.
William ShakespeareI tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems, and remember no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl SandburgHistory 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. KennedyHe who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Theodor W. AdornoChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. KennedyNo man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar WildeFor the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. HumphreyI desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George EliotGod cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel ButlerForget the past.
Nelson MandelaI like to spend time in the past with the things that have been important to me.
John WoodenFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltPrejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya AngelouGood men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past.
Marcus AureliusI don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi HendrixWe must respect the past and mistrust the present if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph JoubertThe great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah WinfreyWe must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
Alan WattsA mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de BalzacI 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 WattsEvery saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar WildeWhenever I think of the past it brings back so many memories.
Steven WrightEveryman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus AureliusI know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick HenryA moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles DarwinHear the voice of the Bard! Who present past and future sees, Whose ears have heard The Holy Word, That walked among the ancient trees.
William BlakeWe are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
E. M. ForsterAll beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives you are the Buddha.
BuddhaA safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James Matthew BarrieI really feel free, and not as serious as I have been in the past.
Christina AguileraThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham LincolnHere lies interred in the eternity of the past from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life which after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy and expired January 22d 1821 A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
Lord Byron