- “The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr).” By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.” ― Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
- “We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.” ― Doug Dillon
- “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
- “The future is something to look forward to, not a placeto escape to, and even if you like to dream or fantasize aboutwhat lies ahead for you, do it mindfully.” ― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
- “By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder
- “Choices that me make everyday shapes our future.Everyday you have the power to change your future by doing right choice, by staying true to yourself.You have that choice to decide your goals in life.You have that choice to do actions which make closer to your goals in life.You have the choice to dream about your future and work towards it.You have the choice to not let your past define you.Everyday you have these choices.” ― Purvi Raniga
- “Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don’t let it consume you.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “What is time? Who can explain this easily and briefly? Who can comprehend this even in thought so as to articulate the answer in words? Yet what do we speak of, in our familiar everyday conversation, more than of time? We surely know what we mean when we speak of it. We also know what is meant when we hear someone else talking about it. What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know. But I confidently affirm myself to know that if nothing passes away, there is no past time, and if nothing arrives, there is no future time, and if nothing existed there would be no present time. Take the two tenses, past and future. How can they ‘be’ when the past is not now present and the future is not yet present? Yet if the present were always present, it would not pass into the past: it would not be time but eternity. If then, in order to be time at all, the present is so made that it passes into the past, how can we say that this present also ‘is’? The cause of its being is that it will cease to be. So indeed we cannot truly say that time exists except in the sense that it tends toward non-existence.” ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
- “The future toyed with us, it was up to us to try to enjoy the game. But not everyone liked the game or they weren’t given the tools to play.” ― Carrie Adams, The Godmother
- “The best way to shape the future is to envision it early on and start manufacturing it today.” ― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
- “I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.” ― Miles Davis
- What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future. Barack Obama
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson
- “No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.” ― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
- “Yesterday has gone, never to return. It is the past and over; learn from its mistakes and look to the future with optimism.” ― Marilyn L Rice
- “Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “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 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
- Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Perhaps the savages will always be in control, Phillip said gloomily. Perhaps greed will always outweigh wisdom in the councils of the mighty; perhaps fear will always overcome compassion in the mind of a man with a sword in his hand.” ― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
- “It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant… is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires – or forbidden to him – he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times… Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man’s likeness to a god still more.” ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- “Think about your future in a positive way and you will move towards your goals.” ― Aurora Berill
- “I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,where economics and technology will negate each other.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
- “People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- We are always yesterday and tomorrow. Théo Lagacé (my 5 year old son)
- “The Game is never Over, initials says G…O… for the next…” ― Atul karande
- “I catch a glimpse of my face in the mirror. It seems old, with too much makeup. I feel stuck, out of school, working odd jobs, like someone brooding, hat in hand in an anteroom, waiting for the future as if it were some hoop-skirted belle that must gather up its petticoats, float forward, and present itself to me.” ― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
- “Think and look like where you’re going, not where you are” ― Constance Friday
- “Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks… then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It’s really not even fair to everyone else.” ― Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart