There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
– George Carlin
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- The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. – Epicurus
- The past doesn’t EXIST. Neither is the future, so be present in the present. Just BE! – Gladys Adevey
- He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past,controls the future. – George Orwell
- Let’s face it: the present self is present. It’s in control. It’s in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It’s off in the future. It’s weak. It doesn’t even have a lawyer present. – Daniel Goldstein
- He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. – George Orwell
- In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. – Pablo Picasso
- “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass
- The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. – Eugene O’Neill
- You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Anonymous