- “It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.” ― Sanhita Baruah
- “I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
- “Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- You can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. Lauren Oliver
- “Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.” ― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops
- “Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.” ― Thomas Jefferson, Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
- “When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
- “In everything that I’ve left behind there lays everything that I need to move ahead. Therefore, the past need not be a trash-heap. Rather, it can be a treasure-trove.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “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
- “We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher’s stone. Our music is our alchemy.” ― Saul Williams
- “The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “Milton had a day to day outlook; if life were not at any given moment positively unbearable, that is to say, if he were not actually cold, nor without a drink, nor alone, he still maintained a vivid faith in the future.” ― Mary McMinnies, The Flying Fox: A Novel Set During the Twilight of British Rule in Malaya
- “Hope is something that is built from small parts. Perceived actions. Observed effects. Imperfect understanding. Uncertain knowledge. Acknowledged fears. The things each of us projects and says and does in the physical world. Hope then is made up of tiny bits and pieces of us. All of us, together.” ― David Amerland
- Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today. Peter Kuzmic
- “It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “In my view, an ultimate extreme level of a moment in time is nothing but actual “Nothing” or nothingness. Again, in my view, a moment in time is past, present, and future at the same moment in time. The present is an illusion. Our present is our past and the future.” ― Khalid Masood
- “Present is the gateway to the future.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
- “In a vision, Irie has seen a time, a time not far from now, when roots won’t matter any more because they can’t because they mustn’t because they’re too long and they’re too tortuous and they’re just buried too damn deep. She looks forward to it.” ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- “Love is the only future God offers.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “The church preach so much about power in the kingdom of God but we don’t talk about wisdom. Everybody goes for power forgeting that power without wisdom can be disastrous.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
- “The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life
- “The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.” ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
- “We fail to take responsibility, to act productively in the interest of ourselves and others. And in our attempts at a better life, we are often severely limited or thwarted by the immature and socially inept behavior of ourselves and others. There is a great fabric of relations, behaviors and emotions, reverberating with human and animal bliss and suffering, a web of intimate and formal relations, both direct and indirect. Nasty whirlwinds of feedback cycles blow through this great multidimensional web, pulsating with hurt and degradation. My lacking human development blocks your possible human development. My lack of understanding of you, your needs perspectives, hurts you in a million subtle ways. I become a bad lover, a bad colleague, a bad fellow citizen and human being. We are interconnected: You cannot get away from my hurt and wounds. They will follow you all of your life—I will be your daughter’s abusive boyfriend, your belligerent neighbor from hell. And you will never grow wings because there will always be mean bosses, misunderstanding families and envious friends. And you will tell yourself that is how life must be. But it is not how life has to be. Once you begin to be able to see the social-psychological fabric of everyday life, it becomes increasingly apparent that the fabric is relatively easy to change, to develop. Metamodern politics aims to make everyone secure at the deepest psychological level, so that we can live authentically; a byproduct of which is a sense of meaning in life and lasting happiness; a byproduct of which is kindness and an increased ability to cooperate with others; a byproduct of which is deeper freedom and better concrete results in the lives of everyone; a byproduct of which is a society less likely to collapse into a heap of atrocities.” ― Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
- “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” ― Shannon Alder
- “As A-ma said, every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another.” ― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
- “Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. …those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” ― Robert H. Goddard