The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol
Quotations
Future
There are many tomorrows,
There is only one today.
-Joaquin Miller
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-Terri Guillemets
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
