“What is now in the past was once in the future”

“We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past’s mistakes and the future’s fears.”

Fritz Leiber book The Big Time

“The earth belongs to the living, Jefferson once said, and past generations do not have the right to bind future generations to comply with what those past generations chose to remember about the past and how they chose to remember it.”

Brooks D. Simpson (1957) American historian

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

Eric Berne book Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

Eugene O'Neill A Moon for the Misbegotten