Abandon Quote by Nhat Hanh

If we continue to keep looking back at our past experiences. We are doing nothing more than wasting our present and spoiling, Our future.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

— Ayi Kwei Armah

If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as…

— Sylvia Plath

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

— Anonymous

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as…

— Sylvia Plath

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

— Erica Jong

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

— Winston Churchill

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

— Aesop

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

— Bell Hooks

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat

If you think about the future, you lose perspective of the present.

— Keylor Navas

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond ones reach, until it becomes…

— Unkown