1. The most terrifying thing is to see everything you hated in the past come back to you in the guise of the future. ——Jean Rostand

2. Catch up with the future, seize its essence, and transform the future into the present. ——Soviet Union

3. At any time, the present is just an intersection, where the past and the future meet, and we cannot have any fight with the two. There can be no world without tradition, nor life without activity. ——Ellis

4. We should look forward to the future and don’t dwell on the past. ——Latin America

5. Everything that has passed will become a fond memory. ——Pushkin

6. Everything will pass, but the truth will last forever. ——Dostoyevsky

7. One generation passes and another generation comes. But the earth endures forever. ——The Bible

8. Plan the future based on the past. ——Burke

9. In the past, when I left, the willows lingered; now when I come to think about it, the rain and snow are falling. ——The Book of Songs

10. Don’t sigh for the passing years, but face the time that is slipping away in a hurry. ——Europe

11. The future comes among us, in order to change us long before it happens. ——Rilke

12. Carefully paint your current picture for later memories. ——Anonymous

13. Time has no present, and eternity has no future and no past. ——Tennyson

14. There are three paces of time: the future is belated, the present flies like an arrow, and the past stands still forever. ——Schiller

15. Everything that amuses us now was once a critical moment of some kind. ——Virginia Woolf

16. If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

—— Spinoza