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Quotes About Reflection

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
~ Dan Quayle
I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.
~ Michael J. Fox
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
~ Elie Wiesel
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.
~ Akiane Kramarik
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?
~ Alan Watts
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
~ Elvis Costello
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.
~ David Berlinski
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
~ Boris Yeltsin
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.
~ Sylvia Plath
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
~ Oscar Wilde
What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?
~ Warren Ellis
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
People who think about the past have no future.
~ Hermione Gingold
If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.
~ DJ Spooky
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
~ Isaac Marion
Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
~ James M. Barrie
We are the echo of the future.
~ W. S. Merwin
If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind
~ Matthieu Ricard
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
~ Aesop
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
~ Bob Dylan
Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.
~ Vladimir Bukovsky