Alive Quote by Alexander Lowen

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the…

— Stephen Baxter

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

— Ellen Hopkins

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

— Rithy Panh

Create the future by controlling the present and forgetting the past.

— Anonymous

You can't create a future if you are clinging to the past.

— Joshua Neal Hartry

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

— Immortal Technique

The future exists as much as the past - it does not. Why not focus on being? The gift of life, the present.

— A D Kruk

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward…

— Susanna Kearsley

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges…

— Anonymous

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But…

— Eleanor Brown

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon