“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”

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American fantasy writer 1975

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

“It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Mohsin Hamid Moth Smoke

Source: Moth Smoke

“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

“Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.