The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.