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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert
“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
Fidel Castro
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
Ray Bradbury
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”
Jane Austen
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
Confucius
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”
Andre Gide
“To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.”
Andre Gide
“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.”
Dean Acheson
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
Bernard Meltzer
“The 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 Lincoln
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Euripides
“A 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 Balzac
“Sweet is the memory of past troubles.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”
Lord Byron
“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”
Sophocles
“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”
Sophocles
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
Victor Hugo
“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Victor Hugo
“What is past is prologue.”
William Shakespeare
“They say miracles are past.”
William Shakespeare
“Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.”
Robert Redford
“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”
Bob Marley
“The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin’ head first.”
Drake
“I like a woman with a future and a past.”
Drake
“Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.”
Eminem
“Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.”
Lil Wayne
