Quotes about the future

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“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”

“Your past is my Future.”

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.”

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

“We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”

“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”

“You have to choose your future regrets.”

“I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen”

“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”

“Life must go on, even if it's no joke… just pretend to believe in the future.”

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”

“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.”

“In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame”

“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien
said mildly, “that we can even have a future”

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

“You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.”

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”

“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt”

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”

“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.”

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

“The Three Oddest Words

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.”

“To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.”

“But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.”

“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

“Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities…”

“Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.”

“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.”

“O little one,
My little one,
Come with me,
Your life is done.

Forget the future,
Forget the past.
Life is over:
Breathe your last.”

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”

“But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.”

“Many people see happiness only in their future.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.”

“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

“I regret how much I believed in the future.”

“At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.”

“The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

“People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.”

“When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.”

“It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)”

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.”

“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.”

“Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism… Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

“All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.”

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility…. Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”

“We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”

“I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.”

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?… It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”

“They had no past. They had no future. They just were.”

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

“And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.”

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.”

“Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.”

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”

“Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.”

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”

“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”

“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”

“ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.”

“Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.”

“The future ain't what it used to be.”

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

“You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.”

“The future's another country, man… And I still ain't got a passport.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

“It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.”

“You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband.”

“That was because of Merripen,” Win admitted. “He was all I ever wanted.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.”

“One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.”