Desire Quote by Michel de Montaigne

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but…

— Blaise Pascal

We keep the sediments of the past in the form of regrets, resentments, grudges, arrogance, defeatist attitude etc. that sap our energy and drag…

— T Joseph Benziger

“I shall not dwell in the past... I shall not dread the present... I shall not fear the Future... For as Long as I…

— Oscar Trejo Jr

“We never know, do we, if the future is just more of the present pushed forward, or whether the look and feel, not to…

— Sven Birkerts

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here…

— Peter Merry

“I see how we ourselves stand before the future, divided between hope and fear. But at least we know that there is a future,…

— Henry Miller

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition…

— Frank Herbert

“We can talk of a future that may never come, reminisce a past that will never return, but let us give our whole selves…

— Kwame Crawford

“Uncomfortable with our sense-of-lack today, we look forward to that day in the future when we will feel truly alive; we use that hope…

— David R. Loy

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Our attention is in the moment; we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past.”

— Jose Luis Ruiz

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

— Dan Chaon