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MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence.
— Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
The more you are grateful for what you have the more you can live fully in the present. When you live in the present moment the greater you can build stepping stones for a brighter future.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years
— FM-2030
MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh...
— Muse
The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak something here or there to live happily ever after. It allows for spiritual sloth in the certainty of providence.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.
— Tom McCarthy, Satin Island
I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indifferent chaos in the hands of wanton boys.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.
— Max More
Most of us are too focused on our future that we forget to live our present.
— Raaz Ojha
She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been paired down to its solitary components.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don’t give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don’t lose them.
— Soraya Diase Coffelt
You can't let your past write the future
— Janny Wurts, Fugitive Prince
We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.
— Husam Wafaei
your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.
— Sushil Singh
It's OK to glance in the rear-view to see where you've been, but stay focused on where you are going!
— Mark Hewer
In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.
— FM-2030
Then indecision brings its own delays,  And days are lost lamenting over lost days.  Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;  What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.
— David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
I think for a time I was unsure what love meant. And now at least I AM sure that a very big part of it involves caring about someone SO much, that you find yourself using Your energy to make their life the BEST it can possibly be. And in turn they do the same for you. Until you both are strong enough to overcome whatever struggles you might have battled on your own, and also struggles you still have yet to face.
— Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
There is no mystery to happiness.Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn- or worse, indifference- cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present. But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning- the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life- a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them. For myself, I have always chosen meaning.
— Jed Rubenfeld
This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It feels like rightness winning. It feels like possibility.
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth
— Martin J. Rees
A man cannot fully embrace his future…until he first releases his past
— Blake L. Higginbotham, Apostles, Elders & Other Ministries
The future might be dark, but darkness shared wasn't a thing to be feared.It was to be embraced.
— Heather R. Blair, Blood in Fire
He was thirteen then, Elijah almost seven. Now, ten years later, Elijah realizes he’s older than Danny was. That all of those changes have happened to him, too. The changes that nobody has any say over. The biology—“growing” and “up” as a physical matter. The changes after—Elijah has to believe they’re a matter of choice. Looking at Danny used to be like looking at the future. Now looking at Danny is like looking at a future he doesn’t want.
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
Not a day goes by, without thinking, that books are our future, not technology.
— Arianna Ruby
Those who are not lazy will have a better chance for a steadfast future.
— Jan Jansen
Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better?
— Avery Williams, The Alchemy of Forever
It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.
— Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Opportunities that always fail need change
—  else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end.
The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.
— Auliq Ice
Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope
— Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot
There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.
— Auliq Ice
Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense.
— Auliq Ice
In the future, you will always encounter the past!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.
— George Orwell
We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.
— Jody Hedlund, The Vow
Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.
— James Rozoff
She kept her head high, even as her eyes stung, even as panic filled her vision with warnings and precautions.It was not her fault he had liked her.It was not her fault she was cyborg. She would not apologize.
— Marissa Meyer, Cinder
To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.
— Malachy McCourt
We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.
— Marc Goodman
Though sometimes when he wakes in the night all he can think about is death. His own death, of course, but also the death of those around him,the fact that one day in the not-too-distant future every person he knows, every single one, will be dead and gone, along with all the people he doesn't know,to be replaced by a crop of strangers who will take over the structures left behind.
— A.S.A. Harrison, The Silent Wife
Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.
— Christopher G. Nuttall, Ark Royal
There are two main predictions for the future
—  it’s either appealing or appalling.An appealing future is created by people who identify their real values in life and believe in what they can do.
Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.
— Kip S. Thorne, The Science of Interstellar
You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.
— Auliq Ice
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
— Frederic W. Maitland
Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey
— Nicole  Williams, Lost & Found
The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future
—  excuses are the reasons why you shift that task.
Whatever you wish to achieve in future is a part of today's job. Infuse all your energies in today and make every other day like this one!
— Anum Sattar
I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
To assist us in climbing the mountains is marvelous. To level the mountains and altogether eliminate the climb is miraculous. And at times I think that God prefers the latter because it emboldens us to face the former.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
...Then a man turnedAnd said to me: "Although I love the past, the dark of it,The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the allOf it asking for nothing, I will love the twenty-first century more...
— Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the worst. Our natural tendency is to be negative and doubtful. It is actually very hard to be positive. It takes faith to be positive and believe that good things are in our future.
— Lisa Bedrick
And the open road rolled out in front of us.
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The future will be bright, if you play it right!
— Debasish Mridha
Books’ll be back,” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.
— Debasish Mridha
The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education.
— Debasish Mridha
And I wanted to believe that there could be an us. That some way, somehow there would be an us somewhere in the future that I could not see.
— Nade Marshall
We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Only memories have a future.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.
— Marina Keegan
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it
— Saji Ijiyemi
Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.
— Orrin Woodward
I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.
— André Gide
...a great future behind him, already
— Angela Carter, Wise Children
Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
Nothing can do with PAST, but if you seriously thinking some good thing at PRESENT, then you can achieve anything in FUTURE.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
Our choices now - this week, this month, this year - are very sticky. Once made, their effects never go away. Rather, those choices about how we think and what we do are a constant presence. Every thought, every action is a choice, and even now the choices you have made in your life thus far are shifting and combining in order to create who you really are. Therefore, simple logic says that by paying careful attention to our choices from this point forward, we can create a future we choose instead of a future that 'happens.
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You
People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
— King Abdullah II
And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking.
— Auliq Ice
The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.
— Auliq Ice
Commander Tool Belt" Jason said."Bad Boy Supreme" Piper said."Chef Leo the Tofu Taco Expert."They laughed and told stories about Leo valdez, their best friend. They stayed on the roof until dawn rose, and Piper started to believe they could have a fresh start. It might even be possible to tell a new story in which Leo was still out there.Somewhere...
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.
— Debasish Mridha
Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.
— Debasish Mridha
I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.
— Debasish Mridha
If you want to be happy in the future, be happy now.
— Debasish Mridha
I am convinced that the way forward for the human race is to recognize and protect the fundamental right of sovereignty over consciousness, to throw off the chains of our divisive religious heritage, to seek out forms of spirituality (or no spirituality at all if we so prefer) that are truly supportive of liberty and tolerance, to help the human spirit to grow rather than to wither, and to nurture our innate capacity for love and mutual respect. The old ways are broken and bankrupt and new ways are struggling to be born. Each one of us with our own talents, and by our own choices, has a part to play in that process.
— Graham Hancock
My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.
— Debasish Mridha
He knew that, from now on, every day would be alike, that they would all bring the same sufferings. And he saw the weeks, the months, the years that awaited him, gloomy and implacable, coming one after the other, falling on him and suffocating him bit by bit. When the future is without hope, the present takes on a vile, bitter taste.
— Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.
— Debasish Mridha
If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways.
— Debasish Mridha
As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.
— Debasish Mridha
We were surrounded by thirty-foot-tall giants who were about to kill us. Then the sky opened up, and the gods descended.""Grandad," the kids said, "you are full of schist." "I'm not kidding!" he protested.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Our future paths are defined by how we turned and walked the road in the past.
— Kat Lahr
We all think that in the future, we are wonderful people. We will be patient, we will not procrastinate, we will exercise, we will eat well... The problem is we never get to live in that future. We always live in the present.
— Dan Ariely
Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater
— Rania Al Abdullah
The Future,” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things—going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.
— Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
If one could always predict the future, this person would soon be the saddest being on earth, for it cannot be surprised nor could it stop thinking of making a difference.
— LordBloodySoul
The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace
It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress.Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.
— Richard Armour
I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.
— Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
The future though imminent is obscure.
— Winston  Churchill
Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.
— Debasish Mridha
When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.
— Kahlil Gibran
Who you are today is the outcome of the choices you have made in the past. Choices that you will make today, will shape your future.
— Vishwas Chavan
Wizards are always troubled about the future.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror—is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
Learning to be a Life- Giving Mom without regrets requires embracing the season you are in. You have to let go of the past and live in the present as you lay hold of the future. At each transition you will likely shed some tears as you realize that you can’t go back and re-live the past. You must move forward, facing the imperfections of your present, hoping for the future.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with God's Best
To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen
— A.M.M Alusi
They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.
— Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Route 20
The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.
— Chloe Thurlow, A Girl's Adventure
Release the story and the truth will be revealed. Release the past and the present will reveal itself. Embrace the future and walk through your fears. Dig out the weeds and the flowers will blossom. Speak your Truth and your life will become manifest.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
Don't Stress About the Future. Live Life and Love Now!
— Anthony Avina
As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030
— Desmond Oshifeso
Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing.... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.
— Howard Fast, The Dinner Party
Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.
— Faraaz Kazi
You create your future in the Present, use your Now well, for a better Tomorrow!
— Rachitha Cabral
Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.
— M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we lose ourselves in darkness.
— Kiersten White, Illusions of Fate
Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.
— Adalbert Stifter, Indian Summer
Wishes are memories coming from our future!
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life
Look beyond the present circumstances, imagine a brighter future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
I can't predict the future but I'm pretty much sure of how I want it to be, how so? Because I have a dream and zero reasons not to achieve it.
— Unarine Ramaru
Life-ahead is timeless fortune.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every struggle in your past has shaped you into the person you are today. Take God's hand and step into your future without fear.
— Surgeo Bell
You can work to create a bright future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.
— John Thai
Past shouldn't always be treasured, becausePresent and Future become trashed.
— Bradley B. Dalina
What we are is not all that we may become.
— William Shakespeare
Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.
— Unarine Ramaru
All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.
— Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Great future through ignorance often ends in great regret because God often times gives us what we need in a package we do not want.
— Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
Keep the faith and be hopeful for the future.Our best life are ahead of us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If s/he is intimidated by your achievements so far, s/he shouldn't be in your future because s/he cannot handle what is coming...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as they return to earth.
— Christopher Riche Evans, Mind In Chains
In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraordinary feats. Just as the United States dominates world affairs with less than five per cent of the global population, Australia too can make a lasting impression with its own limited demographics. The rise of the global middle class is Australia’s pathway to exceptionalism.
— Asher Judah, The Australian Century
You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.
— Nadine Brandes, A Time to Die
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.
— Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky
Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates, and Wild Boys?
— Christopher Daniel Mechling, Peter: The Untold True Story
There is always a double meaning in life...
— Nadeem v Abdu
The future is always unknown.Live your own life.Live in the moment.Live so well in the present, so that when tomorrow never comes, you may have no regrets.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am blessed.I am beautiful.I am great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is not life planning, it is life.
— Unarine Ramaru
You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Hope:Belief in a bright future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.
— Ibrahim Emile
she thought of the mix of kids in her class and in Melissa’s and she knew that the future could be bright. No one had tried to say she didn’t have a right to be in that school, or acted interested in who her ancestors were, but they had been interested in who she was and where she had moved from. They wanted to know what she did and wore and liked.
— Dixie Dawn Miller Goode, Double Time: On The Oregon Trail
Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.
— Elizabeth George
If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Now is much better then was, and if and when aren't as great as now - yet.
— Rodney Richards
Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.
— Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules
The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.
— Lisa Wingate, The Tidewater Sisters
I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won’t come out straight.
— Lisa Wingate, The Tidewater Sisters
Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.
— Lisa Wingate, The Tidewater Sisters
The future is always unknown.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.
— Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth
Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!
— Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind Interactive Workbook
God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.
— Elizabeth George, A Couple After God's Own Heart: Building a Lasting, Loving Marriage Together
People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.
— Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
He tunneled his dirty hands through her hair and kissed her breathless. Her neck, her eyes, the corners of her mouth. He kissed her lips as if his life depended on it. Kissed their future into her. All they could have and all they could be.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heroes Are My Weakness
The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved only because they once served the fitness of our genes. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental health. The world's last aversive experience will be a precisely dateable event.
— David Pearce
The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.
— Michel Faber, Under the Skin
it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing - from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allow the present and paste to take their rightful place at the centre of our attention. The past is palpable to Sheldon now, in the way the future is to the young. It is either a brief curse or a gift before oblivion.
— Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night
Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it’s even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.
— John A. Ashley
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.
— Jeremy Griffith
...I found myself surrounded by people--starting with my mom, grandparents, uncles, and aunts, and leading to a string of wonderful role models and mentors--who kept pushing me to see more than what was directly in front of me, to see the boundless possibilities of the wider world and the unexplored possibilities within myself. People who taught me that no accident of birth--not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless--would ever define or limit me.
— Wes  Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life...
— Sanhita Baruah
Director of Ensuring the Future
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
The choices that you make in life will determine the person that you become. Life is all about choices.
— Benjamin A. McKinney
Why spend a thought worrying when you can invest the same thought planning a prosperous future?
— Phumi Ngwane
Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.
— Haruki Murakami, Samsa in Love
Your personal health is your greatest possession
—  the most significant foundation of any future you will have.
To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It's a natural instinct. They don't think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or build a special bond, patience is the key to every stall's door.
— Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
We keep waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness. But this is it. Right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love right now, and you’ll have an amazing life.
— Barrie Davenport
Your decisions determine where you will or will not be in later days to come. Rise up and direct them well!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.
— George Crane
-the future is a most marvellous creation. For in it lies all the mystery of raw potentiality-a boundless reservoir of all that could be-formed by the illimitable interactions of conscious human beings with their individual environments, circumstances, and conditions, and in concert with their fellow humans.
— Stephen R. Lawhead, The Shadow Lamp
We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.
— Syd Barrett
Did you look for the truth?You can't find it, don't you. You can't find the truth, because we even creating it.
— VicDo
You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate to settle in it by their purposeful actions!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Don't let the lies of yesterday hamper the promises of tomorrow
— Ricky Yousuf
Every action in the present prepare us for the future.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Start from as little as you can - You never know, this may be the difference of tomorrow.
— Abed Rahmani
I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.
— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love
Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
We’re here,’ the Clock says.The Perfectionist opens her eyes. She sees nothing. It’s white. All white. There’s no up. There’s no down. No horizon. Nothing. It’s just white.‘Clock, what is this?’ asks the Perfectionist. Her voice is shaky.‘This is the future.’‘This is the future?’ the Perfectionist asks. Her mouth is dry. She forces herself to swallow.‘Why is the future like this?’‘Because it hasn’t happened yet,’ says the Clock
— Andrew Kaufman, All My Friends are Superheroes
Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
— Elizabeth George
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
We have a chance in the future only if we take our own responsibility. Not anyone else come to give us good.
— King Michael of Romania
Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.
— Anthony Liccione
A Man Without A Goal Is A Man Without A Future.
— Godfrey Orateng
Your attitudes are literally seeds for the growing of your future self.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.
— Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie
History is the diary of humankind
—  to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.
Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.
— King Michael of Romania
Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.
— Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it.
— Alamvusha
Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all.
— Dorkly
As a Christian your future is secure.
— Jim George
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future - you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
— John Green, Paper Towns
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency — how to accurately anticipate the future.
— Dan Burrus
Your future begins with your next thought.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We can not have a future without respecting our past.
— King Michael of Romania
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
— Nikola Tesla
All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
— Shannon L. Alder
I have hopein who I am becoming.I have belief in every scar and disgraceful wordI have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming.They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you loveand they also say that the only romance worth fighting foris the one with yourselfand I know by nowthat they say a lot of things,people talking everywherewithout saying a word,but if it took me all those years to learn myselfor teach myselfhow to look into the mirrorwithout breaking itI know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting.I stood up for my own head and so did my heartand we are coming to terms with ourselves.Shaking hands, saying ”let’s make this workfor we have places to goand people to seeand we will need each other”So I have hopein who I am becoming.It’s Julyand I have hope in who I am becoming.
— Charlotte Eriksson
NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
We don’t escape our pasts, you know,” Madd said. He sounded defeated. “Never. We can never escape what we are.” “Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
— Tali Spencer, Thick as Thieves
Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself.
— Noel DeJesus
Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.
— Isabelle Rowan, A Note in the Margin
Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.
— Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware
Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal interference with Him to whom it belongs, in our feverish, anxious attempts to dispose of it, and in filling it up with shadows of good and evil shaped by our own wild imaginations? To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly--I had almost said each moment--what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself,--this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?
— William Ellery Channing
It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Aizai the Forgotten
I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. I don't find your life uninteresting, as Rodman does. I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing. Having no future of my own, why shouldn't I look forward to yours.
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.
— Stephen   Black, The Zoo: An Allegorical Adventure
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
— Peter Ducker
Sometimes to find the light switch you need to wander in the dark.
— Aleksandar Marinkov
Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.
— Jinnul Jr.
Tomorrow's fast becoming our Past.
— Herbern Lebumfacil
Omg! To the past.Omg! To the present. Omg! To the future. It's life. Don't give up!
— Touaxia Vang
We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.
— Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
.. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in a way I'd never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before this recurrance that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. That is probably true even if you live to be ninety.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars