- “Planning for, or worrying about, a particular portion of the future does not increase your chances of reaching it.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory, we may single out the essentials for the present that might be best shots for the future. (Never looking back again”, )” ― Erik Pevernagie
- “The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.” ― J.G. Ballard
- “Let each day of your life be an inspiration to the world and tomorrow people” ― Jordan Hoechlin
- “We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if were found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay it’s too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts. We thrust it out of sight because it distresses us, and if we find it enjoyable, we are sorry to see it slip away. We try to give it the support of the future, and think how we are going to arrange things over which we have no control for a time we can never be sure of reaching. (Page 9)” ― Blaise Pascal, Human Happiness
- Fuck yesterday. Don’t dwell on it. Understand it, learn from it but don’t over respect it and allow it to affect tomorrow negatively. Gary Vaynerchuk
- “The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.” ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
- “Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?” ― Ricky Maye
- We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. Claude Shannon
- “Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way otherthan just getting older.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
- “The past embraces the futureThe future embraces the pastThey are both intertwinedLinked in all eternity” ― Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
- “Nothing takes you away from dwelling in the past or worrying about the future like living in the present.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “Many little people, in little places, doing little things, can change the world.” ― Eduardo Galeano
- “If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have – a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don’t have a problem, why pay for a solution? If you love the freedom and elegance of simple toons, why encumber yourself with something complicated? And yet, if we are ever again going to have a world fit and pleasant for little children, we are surely going to have to draw the line where it is not easily drawn. We are going to have to learn to give up things that we have learned (in only a few years, after all) to ‘need’.” ― Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.” ― Sara Shepard, Unbelievable
- “Don’t let the blights of the past hold you back from the bliss of the future” ― Constance Friday
- “The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.” ― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
- “No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.” ― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
- “Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- “I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.” ― Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
- “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
- Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius
- “You are creating your future with the thoughts, words and choices you are making in the present.” ― Jeanette Coron
- “Time stops for no one, no matter how unsure we are of the future.” ― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
- “I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time……why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Despite their enormous size and domination, the dinosaurs were booted out. Humans with their great brains may meet a similar fate. Perhaps, our successor will be a virus or a microorganism. It is their turn anyway.” ― Aneesh Abraham, Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
- “Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.” ― John Armstrong, Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
- “The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.” ― Dalai Lama XIV