We have many of the problems we complain about because we have not yet learned how to deal with the past, present, and future. We are given all three, but it is clear that we do not use them properly.
Therefore, we receive a helping hand from writers, philosophers and other personalities, who have been able to better explain why the past does not always do us good, why it is so important to accept that only the present is guaranteed and how good it is to make plans for the future and how not.
Quotes about the past
1. “If the past doesn’t please you, forget it. Build a new life to believe in. ” – Paulo Coelho
2. “You can’t have a better day tomorrow if you always think about yesterday.” – Charles F. Kettering
3. “The past cannot be erased, but it can be repaired.” – John LaFarge
4. “Let the past die in every moment. You don’t need him. Refer to the past only when it is absolutely relevant to the present situation. ” —Eckhart Tolle
5. “The past is a beautiful place to visit, but hard to live in.” – Aurel Rapa
6. “The only charm of the past is that it has passed.” – Oscar Wilde
7. “I have never tried to block memories of the past, even if some are painful. I don’t understand people hiding their past. Everything you’ve been through has helped you become the person you are today. ” – Sophia Loren
8. “The past is always a reproach to the present.” – Robert Penn Warren
9. “The past is what you remember, you imagine you remember, you convince yourself that you remember or you pretend to remember.” – Harol Pinter
10. “It’s stupid to let yourself be overwhelmed by the past, you have to fight to live better.” – Lev Tolstoy
Quotes about the present
11. “A happy man is too happy with the present to think seriously about the future. – Albert Einstein
12. “You live your life today, not tomorrow and certainly not yesterday.” – John Grisham
13. “I do not understand those who talk about the past and the future and do not see the present moment that is life. The rest is an illusion of what it was or an illusion that you are making. And to live when you live
”- Marin Preda
14.“ It is said that there are three times: past, present and future. What a gross and harmful mistake. There are two kinds of time, past and future, the present is out of time. And the real, free life is out of time, that is, into the present. How important it is to know that. One can live only in the present, that is, freely. ” – Lev Tolstoy
15. “The Christian is the one who lives neither in the past nor in the future, but only in the present. The past does not bother him, the future does not worry him. ” – Nicolae Steinhardt
16. “Because you don’t know what awaits you tomorrow, fight to be happy today. Have a cup of wine and, in the moonlight, drink, telling yourself that the moon will be looking for you in vain, maybe tomorrow. ” – Omar Khayyam
17. “In order not to depend on the past or the future, I live my present.” – Ovidiu Keres
18. “Let man live making his present as pleasant as possible because tomorrow is approaching the unknown.” – Sophocles
19. It is not wise to say, “I will live”; tomorrow’s life is too late – live today. ” – Marcus Valerius Martialis
20. “Simplicity means living in the present and feeling the present living in us.” – Bruce Davis
21. “Dream as if you were living forever, but live as if you were dead today, for it is not the years of your life that matter, but the life of your years.” – James Dean
22. “If you live in the present, you repair the past and win the future.” – Hector Malot
23. “Do today what others do not do to live tomorrow as others cannot.” – Zig Ziglar
24. “The present we live in today will be the mirror in which we will later recognize ourselves and in what we have been we will recognize who we are.” – Andre Gide
25. “Yesterday is over. Tomorrow may not even exist. There is only the miracle of the present moment. Enjoy it. It’s a gift. ” – Marie Stilkind
Quotes about the future
26. “The future is something that most people love only after it has become past.” – William Somerset Maugham
27. “You can’t be confident in the future if you’re constantly thinking about the past.” – Charles F. Kettering
28. “Life can only be understood if we look back and cannot be lived unless we look ahead.” – Soren Kierkegaard
29. “The idea of the future is more fruitful than the future.” – Henri Bergson
30. “I prefer a dream for the future to a past pleasure.” – Thomas Jefferson
31. “Don’t just make your future a place to recycle.” – Octav Bibere
32. “I like dreams about the future more than the stories of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson
33. “Every watch lost in youth is a chance of unhappiness for the future.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
34. “It should be clear to us, therefore, that even in concentration camps psychotherapy or mental hygiene can only be effective if it focuses on the crucial factor, namely that of helping the mind to find a purpose in future, to stick to. Because a healthy life means living with an eye on the future. ” – Viktor Frankl
35. “What surprises me most about humanity
The man. He sacrifices his health to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to regain his health. Then he is so eager to think about the future that he does not enjoy the present. The result is that he does not live in the present, but not in the future. He lives as if he would never die and then dies without living. ” – Dalai Lama
36. “Unless a person is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point in making plans for a future that you will not be able to enjoy. When your plans reach maturity, you will still live for another future to come. You will never be able to sit back and say with all your might: Now is the time! Your whole education deprived you of this ability because it prepared you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now. ” – Alan Watts
