All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.
You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.
Peaceful is he who is living in the moment, but not in the past nor in the future.
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
