Quotes About Future

Changing our relationship to the past is a staple of therapy. But we talk far less about how our relationship to the future informs the present too. Our notion of the future can be just as powerful a roadblock to change as our notion of the past.

In fact, Wendell continues, I've lost more than my relationship in the present. I've lost my relationship in the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

The future is hope. Where's the hope if you already know what happens? What are you living for then? What are you striving for?

If we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret

Our losses become the road maps for our future.

How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.

The future had started to seem like a challenge he could conquer.

Looking at him, she saw her future and felt all the ragged tears in her heart heal themselves. I fit, she whispered in marvel, stepping into him. I fit with you. He nodded and wrapped his arms around her. Perfectly

And then I went on to make the most of those two years. It's over and done, Aubrey, he promised. And anyway, I'm hoping if I play my cards right, you're going to give me a lifetime.

If you don't leave your past in the past, it'll destroy your future. You've got to live for what today's offering, not for what yesterday took away from you.

being anxious about shit ahead of time just means I've got to be anxious twice.

Remember, you can't change what has happened to you in the past, but you can take steps to ensure a better tomorrow.

Actually, many engaged couples give more thought and consideration to their one-day wedding experience than they do to what will happen in the many years following.

Avoidance is like feeding a monster that will come alive and plan a future attack, but this monster will lose power when it is brought out into the light.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind. [Nicodemus] said then. A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

I'm a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to it was the kind of thought that gave me hope for us all, despite myself. Of course, I suppose someone must once have looked down upon young Lucifer and considered what tremendous potential he contained.

Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

Death isn't when your body stops working. It's when there's no more future. When you can't see past right now, because you stopped believing in tomorrow.

If I ever invade Calderon again, he said, it will be in the summer.

All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you expected.

We must prepare for as many futures as possible, not merely the ones we prefer.