Quotes About Reflection

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

I'm scared of the future. I'm scared of the past. I'm nervous at the moment.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.