The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
The present is always traveling from the past to the future.
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
The earth is not the property of one man or even an entire generation, but of all past, present and future generations who work on it.
—Leo Tolstoy
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
These long and difficult intervals will soon be past for ever, and you will see Him face to face who trusted you to trust through any test, through any interval.
—Amy Carmichael
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
—Stephen Hawking
Forget the past. Be not the slave of your own past.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
—Charles Darwin
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
—Charles Dickens
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
—René Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries
—René Descartes
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
—Cicero
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
—Nikolai Gogol
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
—Cicero
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
—Marcus Aurelius
My soul grieved with reflection on past levity, and want of resolution for God.
—David Brainerd
Begin the day with thanksgiving and prayer. Thanksgiving for the definite mercies of the past, prayer for the definite needs of the present day.
—R. A. Torrey
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
It requires a serious mind & a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual. Most Christians never do.
—AW Tozer
Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. – C.S. Lewis
So ready are we – at least, so ready am I – to want to recall the day that is past and correct the disposals of Divine Providence.
—John Newton