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My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington (6 September 1960)
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius121–180VII, 8 (Penguin Classics edition of Meditations, translated by Maxwell Staniforth)
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Discovery of the Future (1901)
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake1757–1827Proverbs of Hell, Line 10
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time’s swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
William Blake1757–1827Milton (c. 1809), Book the First, 24:72
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.
Malcolm X1925–1965Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
- Justice
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Truth & Lies
Time is always moving on; nothing can stop it. We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future. The more compassionate you are, the more you will find inner peace.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Official twitter page of the Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Tweet from 8. April 2019 11:30 am
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Experience
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
- Life & Death
Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Barack Obamaborn 1961News conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, London (1 April 2009)
- Fear
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Freedom
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“A Visit to Nikola Tesla” by Dragislav L. Petković, Politika (April 1927)
- Work
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Threatened”, The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)
- Love