Quotes About Reflection

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.