The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Traveling allows us to appreciate the beauty of the present moment and leave behind the burdens of the past.

A new start is like a breath of fresh air. It invigorates your spirit, revitalizes your energy, and allows you to break free from the chains of the past. Embrace this moment, for it is the beginning of a journey towards a brighter tomorrow.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson