c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
This is what you have to understand. You grew up, you went to this school and that one, you made these friends and those. It was nothing. The future is a much bigger deal than the past, Adrian, a much bigger deal. Not just because it has babies in it, but because there are better people in it, who are better behaved and more fun to be with, the scenery is better, the weather is better, the rewards and thrills are better. But I really am not sure that you will ever...
— Stephen Fry, The Liar
When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.
— Kate McGahan
Once upon a time, is how stories begin...
— N'Zuri Za Austin
Taking care of you” doesn’t mean to award yourself with a new pair of shoes or spending beyond measure on a trip to Tahiti. It actually means to take care of your financial future.
— Kim Kiyosaki, Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women, Take Charge Of Your Money, Take Charge Of Your Life
Like characters in Greek tragedy, we seem fated to push technology towards its ultimate degree as if we were possessed by malignant gods. We call these gods "curiosity" and "creativity" and "reason" and "progress", but when these words are perverted by technocrats, they are more like the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
— Curtis White, We, Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data
We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive point of view. We strive to perceive oneself from a unified perspective, but it is virtually impossible to do so. Human perception of the self is an illusion. We constantly sift through shifting memories. We experience the present under the fragrance cast by the past and under the illusionary aura of the future.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
— Isocrates
Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.
— Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive
—  even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.
Each person's present feelings are determined by a million instant confrontations of previous experineces. A long time period lived under the effects of chemicals, can become ''your true past''. Note that each past was future for it's own past. If you want to leave a stable past to your far distant future, start using the right chemicals in the right way, today.
— Alper Mazun
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
— David Pearce
Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The future is never set in stone.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
People living in different places invent different words for things, and then the words control how they think. The Masai people, for instance, do not have a word that means 'the future.' Therefore, when they talk of time, they always talk about the present time.Hope, for example, lives in the future. The things one hopes for are always things in the future. So the Masai people may never have felt hope, since they have no idea of a future.But, if the Masai live without hope, they also live without fear. For fear is always about the future, too.-Herr Winteler
— Robert Cwiklik, Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
When the future you see is worse than the present, one begins to worry. And, oh, I speak of Ghanaian politicians. The tadpoles are out-jumping the toads.
— Nana Awere Damoah
He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.
— Aubrey de Grey
Every past used to be a future once upon a time
— Munia Khan
In the wink of an eye, all quaint days of the past, the present, and future will meld together into the bottomless unknown of perpetuity. Only trace evidence of our invertebrate existence will anoint future generations. In the crinkle of time, our houses will crumble apart. Companies that we worked for will go out of business or merge with other nameless conglomerates. What will survive us are our children and our words.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.
— Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle
All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.
— Liz Kessler
If future frightens you, Let me tell you, neither it is sure - nor it is relevant. But for sure, you are wasting your present which is certain! Live Life Day @ Time
— Praveen Chenna
I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.
— Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 未来福音 [The Garden Of Sinners/Recalled Out Summer]
The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?
— Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain
Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We cannot turn back the clock and relive cherished pastimes. We move beyond our origins. A person must make their way in an evolving social, political, and economic world order. We must not be too quick writing off the influence of our prior experiences, because the long tentacles the past remain vibrant strands within us. While the past does not cast our future in stone, its durable mold shapes our present. The ingrained strumming of our personal histories, sentimental or otherwise, also portents what might come along in our future.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.
— Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
If you knew what I would become in the future, would you have treated me the same way today?.
— Gugu Mona
A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
— E. Leo Foster, The Exiles
Today is older than tomorrow,that is the power of the present
— ABC
Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future
— ABC
To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Nothing, is what it appears to be, when it's only with your eyes you see.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.
— Dennis Gabor, Inventing The Future
Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.
— Terry Pratchett, Making Money
The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.
— Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.
— Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.
— Criss Jami
When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.
— Nell Zink, Mislaid
If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?
— Milan Kundera, Ignorance
We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Time travel occurs in humans collective subconscious.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Everyone is wrong about the future.
— Milan Kundera, Ignorance
In the future, designer viruses will be more popular than designer jeans.
— R.A.Delmonico
And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress.
— Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
Your words determine who you are and who you want to be.
— Salma Issah
She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve.
— Katherine McIntyre, Scrying for Summer
But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.
— Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain
I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.
— Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The future was always before you. That was kind of the point of the future.
— Kate Hattemer, The Land of 10,000 Madonnas
I also came to see that I should not worry about tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. The more willing I was to look honestly at what I was thinking and saying and doing now, the more easily I would come into touch with the movement of God's Spirit in me, leading me to the future. God is a God of the present and reveals to those who are willing to listen carefully to the moment in which they live the steps they are to take toward the future. "Do not worry about tomorrow," Jesus says, "tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:34).
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good.
— Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet
I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth... I must walk away. I owe it to myself... I owe it to my future.
— Steve Maraboli
You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
— Ashley Brooke Robbins
Never believe the lines on your hands that predict your future. Because people who don't have also have future.
— Moosa Rahat
I have a vision,I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future
— Mohammed Sekouty
I had always been blithely convinced that if I followed the side roads for long enough I’d trip over something wonderful, that thing you never know you’re looking for until you land on it that suddenly makes the universe a much bigger place than it ever had been before.
— Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
Only the faithful God knows the future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future.
— lauren klarfeld
Life is about learning from the past, embracing the present, and believing in the future.
— Lindsey Jacoby
The past places no absolute limit on the future.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )
— Erik Pevernagie
Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six
—  we were of that disposition
People are born in the past,... most people will say that they are living in the present?! But it's not possible, just saying "I'm living in the present", there is milliseconds like 1.,2.,3.,4.,5 and seconds which are 1..,2..,3..,4..,5..,6..,7... so you probably won't live in the present even and in now... YOu live in "Bowl" let's said it??Or I will call it like this, you die in the future... what's now is the future you have died there or will die!
— Deyth Banger
The fact is that some things will be lost in our new way of life. It is useless to pretend that the transformation to a lower-energy, lower-consumption society will always be painless and easy. Thus, the only possible way we can bring it about is to replace some of the pleasures we are losing with new ones -- with rituals of non-consumption that offer us something to replace what is lost.
— Sharon Astyk
The future goes in incredible speed!
— Deyth Banger
The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
You never see the Future coming, You only Realize you are in the Future
— Anajo Black
In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.
— Wernher von Braun
It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.
— Lisa Schroeder, The Bridge from Me to You
Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
— Bob Dylan
The people deny their past won’t have secure and strong future.
— Ali Rezavand Zayeri
Chances in future are just like sunlight, open the windows to see them.
— Ali Rezavand Zayeri
Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
— Moosa Rahat
Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It’s then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.
— Ron Baratono
...he lacked the sort of ambition that JB and Jude had, that grim, trudging determination that kept them at the studio or office longer than anyone else, that gave them that slightly faraway look in their eyes that always made him think a fraction of them was already living in some imagined future, the contours of which were crystallized only to them.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
It doesn't matter when, how old am I and how. When the first robot is build and it can be like a human which will mean can think, and communicate I will go and buy it. Because this will be the best friend ever will have and ever had!
— Deyth Banger
I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.
— James Jean-Pierre
Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy.
— Eric J. Martindale
The most assured way to participate in a future is to anticipate it
— George Ifeanyi
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
In this delicate and unpredictable life, the future is unwritten. Do not take someone for granted today, for once tomorrow dawns upon the indigo night the only remaining trace will be tracks in the sand...
— Virginia Alison
Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
— Kevin Hancock, Not For Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse
The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me
—  my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.
The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink.
— Amit Abraham
What lies ahead is far greater than what we have left behind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.
— Daniel Egger
The future is bright like a shining star.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When he finally fell asleep, his dreams contained no stories at all, but only the hard stones of thoughts: the unimaginably unlikely coincidence of being alive at the same time as the love of your life, the frequency with which a person was expected to bear the body and the burden of someone else, the idiocy of thinking that kindness can protect the person who is kind, and worst of all, the bottomless pit of a truth that he had suddenly, sickeningly seen: that the world to come that his parents had always talked about was not an afterlife at all, but simply this world, to come--the future world, your own future, that you were creating for yourself with every choice you made in it.
— Dara Horn, The World to Come
The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.
— David Levithan, Every Day
The future is bright like a shining diamond.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are robots aren't we??
— Deyth Banger
Enjoy what you have, cherish the good times and savour everything life presents you. We can’t change the past…However, the future is a blank canvas, waiting for the paint, go create a masterpiece.
— The Hypnotherapy Guy
The past is already documented and the present is taking shape with every moment, but the future is always in-view.
— Seun Ayilara
Why are futuristic movies so primitive, violent and ugly despite having sophisticated technology? Humanity could have an incredible future if we manage the enormous challenges we face.
— Jonathan R Banks
In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that?Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think maybe it's true, even though I don't really like uncertainty. I'd much rather 'know', but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
God reveals future events through dreams, vision and the sacred voice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Craft the story now so you'll be proud to tell it later.
— Tina Seelig, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
My unpleasant past has given me wisdom to build a pleasant Future.
— Sheldon Pereira
Future is coming with incrediable stuff.
— Deyth Banger
As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working well. We do not live in traditional and static societies. But our government, in resisting change, act as if we did. Unless we destroy ourselves utterly, the future belongs to those societies that, while not ignoring the reptilian and mammalian parts of our being, enable the characteristically human components of our nature to flourish; to those societies that encourage diversity rather than conformity; to those societies willing to invest resources in a variety of social, political, economic and cultural experiments, and prepared to sacrifice short-term advantage for long-term benefit; to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.
— Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Nothing is ever behind us.
— Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
— Rebecca McNutt, Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel
I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.
— Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home
Fathers are the future's keepers, as it was in the beginning when the only begotten Son became Father to Man and the Great Circle of Father to Son; Son to Father began.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.
— Jake Vander-Ark, The Day I Wore Purple
There was something called Christianity.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes.
— Italo Calvino
It’s strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
What you do today defines tomorrow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When troubles come into my life which burden my heart and my mind,I know that God will guide me by making his presence shine.
— Liz Liaw
I believe that here on this planet there are people on the future and the last thing they will say won't be "We are from the future". Even they won't said, there aren't idiots!
— Deyth Banger
Embrace the future with enduring hope and faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every story has an own end one story ends with not so happy end like in the middle to happen events like suicide, like die from real nature which will mean you just die without any disease or something like this it has came the time you to die. So you die!Other die from diseases like cancer or something other thing. But the story must end and must begin, nobody can do anything about that. Some stories end and start with happiness, but as always there is some sad events!
— Deyth Banger
The past/future can't be changed! The things which are written to happen, they can't be skipped.
— Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid
...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that’s the image of modern life you’re looking for!
— Paul Amadeus Dienach, Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach
You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things like throws at you to attain it.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.
— Brian Jacques, Martin the Warrior
If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.
— Simon Sinek
the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways
— J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.
— J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
Say all the bad things you can imagine so they won't happen.
— Anonymous
Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Whatever you went through in past equipped you for today. What you experience now prepares you for the future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's true that we don't handle things or we don't know about the future but to prepare our life in the most unexpected way won't hurt us.
— Jayson Zabate
My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
Your future depends on many things,but mostly on you.
— Frank Tyger
The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had the chance to find out about it.-Adam to DEATH & the 4 horsepeople of the Apocalypse
— Neil Gaiman
If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
— Shannon L. Alder
But in doing so---moving forward...---he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn't made of the old one.
— Kevin Hearne, Staked
A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible therefore is unknowable. By examining future stages in the evolution of language we come to learn what discoveries, changes and social revolutions the language will be capable, some day, of reflecting.
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
— Shannon L. Alder
Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.
— A.D. Posey
A goal gives you the lens to see the future with clearer vision.
— J.R. Rim
Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.
— A.D. Posey
A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car of his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite -- just as it is today, but with two difference. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless the may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consist of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race. They will see to it that everyone's physical needs are satisfied, that all children are raised under psychologically hygienic conditions, that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and that anyone who may become dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure his "problem." Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or to make them "sublimate" their drive for power into some harmless hobby. These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.
— Ted Kaczynski
It matters, because everything we sayOf the past is description without place, a castOf the imagination, made in sound;And because what we say of the future must portend,Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to beLike rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
— Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
ITS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE,WHEN U ARE IN GRIEVE,WHEN U THINK TO LEAVE,IN FUTURE U WILL ACHIEVE,TOMORROW WILL BE AN EVE.
— merlin8thomas
We cannot know the mystery of the future.
— Jimmy Carter, Just Peace: A Message of Hope
We cannot ignore our gift of the future.
— Jimmy Carter, Just Peace: A Message of Hope
When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.
— Shannon L. Alder
If something was worth writing down, it was worth writing down in full. And she had a horror of lists--grocery lists, Christmas card lists, and most grisly of all, to-do lists. Lists, like appointment books, were nails driven into the future. She knew this was an odd objection to be raised by a person whose daily life was utterly predictable, who never threw caution, or anything else, to the winds, who never packed light, because she never packed at all. Still, the future was a sleeping monster, not to be poked.
— Jincy Willett
The future belongs to those who learn from the past and live brilliantly in the present moment.
— Debasish Mridha
We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Be the designer of your own future.
— Debasish Mridha
What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.
— Debasish Mridha
EACH MORNING I SAY WAKE UP,I GOT A CHANCE TO MAKE UP,MY WRONGS HAS TO BE CLEAN UP,MY PAST IS A BREAK UP,I HAVE TO THINK FOR FUTURE BACK UP.
— merlin8thomas
Do not be bitter over the past. Believe in a brighter future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.
— James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame? If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.
— Patti Smith, M Train
Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.
— J.R. Rim
Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
— Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy
Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Past Present And Future Exist All At Once As Parallel Moments In Time.
— Khalid Masood
Today, Mihir stopped a bomb from killing the Tahitian President but not from shattering his own collar bone. So, he is now in the operating chamber, undergoing his 250th reconstruction. The nurses have tied a balloon to his bed that says, “Don’t make it to 251!
— Mads Sukalikar, Do Virgins Taste Better? And Other Tales of Whimsy
If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
If you stuck in the past, you won’t be able to step in the future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.
— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Focus on what lies ahead.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The future is now.The past is now.Your influence is always now.
— L.H.
Your journey into the future can only begin when you are able to let go of the past.
— Debasish Mridha
You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future.
— Debasish Mridha
As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.
— Peggy Toney Horton
We talk and tease and bargain with the main dish. Maniacal laughter echoes in the marble halls, sweet to my ears.There’s movement at the banquet hall’s entrance. A child with my eyes tumbles in—all wings and blue hair and giggling innocence. Holding his hand is Morpheus, wearing a ruby crown.The Red King. My king.The bubble bursts and takes the vision with it, leaving nothing but the sound of my gasp and wisps of gray smoke behind.“You see,” Ivory says, “once Morpheus knew that one day you would belong to him and he to you, that you would share a child, he was no longer willing to die to save Wonderland. But he’s insecure about your feelings for him. He feared you would refuse to help. So he made a new plan, however flawed it was.
— A.G. Howard, Unhinged
The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it into digestible upgrade instructions for your average village cyborg-idiot.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
...it is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seems to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don’t have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves…
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.
— Cory Doctorow, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.
— James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.
— Anonymous
This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
The future is never just one choice. It's a thousand. And they never stop. You will choose your future every day of your life. And should you wake up one day to find that you regret the choice you made the day before, then you make a new one. Don't worry about whether you might be wrong someday. Worry about whether you're right now. Tomorrow can wait.
— Cora Carmack, All Played Out
And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride
Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.
— Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year
The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.
— Betty Smith
Early to bed and early to risemakes a year healthy wealthy and wise. to get better future wish U Happy New Year !!!
— Baset
I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
The completely profound senselessness of my own existence explodes into it's own blissful freedom. There is no impending moment, no past moment, only this one, and without past there is no sorrow, and without future there can be no loss.
— Carol Cassella, Oxygen
The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.
— Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
I can't determine the order of events. But I can trust God to guide my footsteps.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Like the weather or bonds between lovers,transformations can never be predicted.All energy transmutes one day or another,in one way or another. Either in its form or composition. Or in its position or disposition.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Tomorrow is the day that I finally get to chase my future. Tomorrow is the day that I make her mine again and this time, I won't ever let her push me away.
— E.S. Carter, Three
Unless we can predict the future, we shouldn't be worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We can place these thoughts in God's hands then let them go.
— Ron Baratono
Past and Future exist in the mind. They exist in the outside world. The mind is shaped by the physical world. Past and future however do NOT exist within the body. Because the present moment is all that you have and will ever be able to experience from within. Presence is how you fully exist. Internal (No-mind, no-time, awareness) is how you fully exist.
— Matthew Donnelly
But Amanda ... ” Jadina said, looking past Maylin at the young Fate. “She doesn’t ask for anything. She doesn’t even try to read the future, it’s just there. She ends up blurting things out. Starts talking about the car accident you’re going to have in three years, or your baby boy dying in child birth in a few months, or your grandmother’s funeral next year. Thing’s you can’t change even if you know about them. Things you’re happier not knowing about. People go through life, happily oblivious. If you start telling them all the horrible things that are coming, they get upset. When those horrible things start coming true, they get scared and blame you. They say you caused it. Label you witch. Even burn you at the stake. She’s safer in there.
— Crissy Moss, Forgotten Ones
Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The future is nothing but a reflection of the present and the past.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.
— Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears
You are creating your future with the thoughts, words and choices you are making in the present.
— Jeanette Coron
Visualization is a process when we try to see the imaginative creation as a real future manifestation.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
When I look into my past, only then can I see the trending future.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.
— Peter W. Smorynski, A Shadow of Chaos
Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What you do now will be in the past right after you do it.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.
— Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin.
— T.K. Kiser, The Firebrand Legacy
It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
— Shannon L. Alder
Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations cannot always be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
My gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?
— William Faulkner
When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.
— Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them
Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.
— Matthew Donnelly
He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
There’s a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind
— About Time
His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
You create your future by what you do in the present
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge.
— Delphine de Vigan
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ever had the feeling the future’s become the past while you were busy being scared?
— Benjamin Johncock, The Last Pilot
Thank you for your wisdom, grandmother.""Pah." The old woman waves her hand to the side, as if brushing away some crumbs. "The young do not listen to the old." She smiles. "And perhaps they shouldn't. It is not our world to live in for long, and regardless, you will do with it as you choose when we are gone.
— daystar721
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying