In 1960

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

~Merle Haggard

Tomorrow

"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today."

~James T. Mccay

Yesterday is ashes

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.

- Eskimo Saying

The farther backward

"The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you will see."

~Winston Churchill

And be grateful

"And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

We are willing enough

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

~E. M. Forster

It's a poor sort

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

~Lewis Carroll

I can't

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

~Lewis Carroll

The rule is

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -
but never jam today.

~Lewis Carroll

Fear

Fear is not of the present,
but only of past and future -
which does not exist.

~A Course in Miracles

Because we cling

Because we cling to the past
we become unavailable to the present.

~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

I have realized

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

~Alan Watts

The time to begin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook

May the best

May the best day of your past
Be the worst day of your future.

~an old Irish Blessing

Forgiveness does not change

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

~Les Brown

You need not cry

You need not cry, for the well is full
You need not mourn the past,
for the present is upon us.
You need not grieve,
for the essence of existence is the
Transformation of form.

~David Bolen

Forgive

"Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events."

~ Caroline Myss

If the past

"If the past is angry, then I must be tolerant and loving .If the past is lost in a dark place, I will light a torch to illuminate the way. If the past is in need, then I will have compassion and respect for it. If the past is lonely, I will be its loving friend."

~Anonymous

The past

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we find greatness.

~Pierre Trudeau

God delights

God delights to isolate us every day, and hide from us the past and the future... "you will not remember," he seems to say, "and you will not expect."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson