When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

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

Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action — that is life.

time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.

Het verleden is altijd tegenwoordig.
(The past is always present.)

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

And the end and the beginning were always there
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

One is always at home in one's past...

We cherish all the past, we glide a-down the present, awake yet dreaming; but the future of ours together — there the bird sings loudest, and the sun shines always there...