The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.