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Memories tell me who I was, not who I'll become. They don't fix the present any more than they fix the past.
— Caroline George
But the memory of past sorrowis it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe
Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution - A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
— John Maynard Keynes
The past does not define, you the present does.
— Jillian Michaels
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
— Alphonsus Liguori
The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!
— Spencer Johnson
Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
— Gautama Buddha
An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.
— Mahmud Shabistari
The past is a gift that should not be unwrapped in the present.
— Steven Aitchison
Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present — Joe Budden
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
— Marianne Williamson
Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.
— Gabriella Marigold Lindsay
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
— Courteney Cox
Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present.
— Thomas S. Monson
He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
— Larry McMurtry
Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.
— Margaret Feinberg
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
— Giuseppe Verdi
The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.
— Richard North Patterson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Buddha
If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.
— Debbie Ford
The past no longer exists, and the future does not yet exist," Morik reasoned. "So live in the present and enjoy it, my friend. Enjoy every moment.
— R.A. Salvatore
I believe we should only think of the past if it helps improve the present. If not, it's pure nostalgia.
— Edney Silvestre
Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
— James Nesbitt
Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future
— Jozef Pilsudski
True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.
— Deepak Chopra
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.
— Tracy Chevalier
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.
— Rose Philippine Duchesne
You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.
— Jonathan R. Miller
Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.
— Stephen Richards
I 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 Colette
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
— Douglas Coupland
We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
— Fennel Hudson
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
— Simone De Beauvoir
We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.
— A.J. Darkholme
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
— Christopher Paolini
Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.
— Oladosu Feyikogbon
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
— Orson Scott Card
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
— David Mitchell
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
— Richard Rohr
I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future
— Ludwig Feuerbach
History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.
— Justo L. Gonzalez
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.
— Emmuska Orczy
I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.
— Julian Schnabel
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
— Marcus Aurelius
Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.
— Susan Meissner
Your past is a lesson, not an excuse.
— Anthony Gucciardi
As if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.
— Anthony Doerr
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
— Harry Browne
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
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
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
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
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
— Walter Benjamin
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
— Roy Bennett
Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
— Augustine Of Hippo
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
— Marcel Proust
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
— Golda Meir
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories - love lives in the present.
— Bryant McGill
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
— Thomas Mann
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.
— Titian
How strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.
— Donna Tartt
Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?
— Jackson Burnett
We can't fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.
— Natasha Tsakos
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
— David Von Drehle
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
— George Herbert Mead
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
