“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
— Albert Camus“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
— Haruki Murakami“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
— Roy T. Bennett“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— J.K. Rowling“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”
— Sarah Dessen“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
— Alan Turing“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”
— Jennifer Elisabeth“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
— Yvonne Korshak“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since the rest of your life won’t last forever.”
— Omar Khayyám“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”
— Gayle Forman“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Kahlil Gibran“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
— Osamu Dazai“You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.”
— Steve Maraboli“But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.”
— Gustave Flaubert“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
— Shannon L. Alder“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin“There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.”
— Philip Pullman“They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.”
— Jake Vander Ark“Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.”
— Jean-Claude Carrière“Before I leave you should ask me where it is that I'm going.”
— Anthony T. Hincks“The certainty of a future rests in the fact that God created it, He already exists in it, and your role has been established in advance of your arrival there.”
— Craig D. Lounsbrough“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra“You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.”
— Suzanne Collins“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana“If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.”
— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
— Karl Lagerfeld“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
— Suzy Kassem“Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.”
— Matthew Goldfinger“Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.”
— TemitOpe Ibrahim“Wisdom of today is the common sense of tomorrow.”
— Aegelis