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Quotations about past

Friedrich NietzscheThe future influences the present just as much as the past.

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   future  past  present  

Henry David ThoreauNever look back unless you are planning to go that way.

 - Henry David Thoreau

Tags:   past  progress  

Haruki MurakamiUnfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

 - Haruki Murakami

Tags:   future  past  possibilities  regrets  time  

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tags:   future  past  present  

BuddhaThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   future  health  past  present  worry  

Blaise PascalThe present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   future  past  present