Antoine Rivarol Quotes

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Put out of your mind what is past and do not fret and worry about what has not yet come to pass.

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present. Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

I don't think about my past or future.

It's easy to look into the future and worry about the past.

It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.