Boundaries Quote by Peter L. Bernstein

“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

“A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and…

— Robert A. Nisbet

“The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…

— Milan Kundera

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Study the past to define the future”

— Confucius

“We take this reality for granted, thinking it is natural, inevitable and immutable. We forget that our world was created by an accidental chain…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode…

— Anthony Giddens

“could change the past and … cease to exist.” “But that’s the nature of risk, isn’t it? You gamble everything on the slenderest of hopes.”

— Lauren Kate