“The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.”

“You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Create your future from your future, not your past.”

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

“Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“Imagining the future may be more important than analyzing the past I daresay companies today are not resource-bound, they are imagination-bound.”

C.K. Prahalad (1941–2010) Indian academic

“Your past is my Future.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning