Quotes About Future

If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy; we can't be happy.

In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.

You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.' Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.

So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.

The future isn't real. The future is abstract. The now is all we know. One now after another now. The now is where we must live. There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you. Focus on that.

To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.

When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.

There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you.

To feel hope you don't need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

You see, when you look at events in history there is a two-way perspective. Forwards and back. But at the time everything is one way.

Memories were just future sadness stored away

The time ahead of you is like the land beyond the ice. You can guess what it could be like but you can never know. All you know is the moment you are in.

You cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don't know. At some point you have to accept that you don't know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.

But what I didn't realise was that when it came to that sneaking, camouflaged, untouchable giant known as the Future, I was as vulnerable as anyone.

Mrs Elm's eyes sparkled with sudden life. 'Well, that's the beauty, isn't it? You just never know how it ends.' And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.

When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you DO know

There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you. Focus on that.

we are encouraged to desire this state of affairs. 'Embrace' the future and 'let go' of the past. The whole of consumerism is based on us wanting the next thing rather than the present thing we already have. This is an almost perfect recipe for unhappiness.

But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other peoples worst enemy. We. can't tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

Listen,' she said, as she realised she wasn't going to be able to escape the bedroom any time soon. 'When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.

Negative capability…quoting Keats: "Discard your memory," he implored. "Discard the future tense of your desire; forget…both what you knew and what you want, to leave space for a new idea.

didn't save you. You were just lucky. But I really think you should ignore feelings like that. That was a moment in your life. You have a lot more days to live. About twenty-four thousand more days to live, probably. That's a lot of moments. You could do many great things in that time. You could read a lot of poetry.