Quotes on Past Present

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I 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.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.