“You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly…. You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.”

“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

“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

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

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

“You are the author of your life, the inventor of your future, the agent of your intentions.”

Nicholas Lore (1944) American social scientist

“Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.”

Patrick Dixon book Futurewise

“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.”

Mark Victor Hansen (1948) American writer

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

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

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

“If in your own experience you haven't yet learned the truth of the deception of feelings, then you just have to go on believing and thinking, having faith in the past and hope in the future, being happy today and unhappy tomorrow, but never being in command of your own life for long.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer