“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”
“The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.”
“Nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust and ambition look ahead.”
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”
“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”