Quotes About Future

El pasado y el futuro son mitos. El pasado no es más que un presente muerto y el futuro, en cualquier caso, nunca existirá, porque para cuando uno llega al futuro ya se ha convertido en presente.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on.

While fear might want us to imagine the worst is certain, the future—like everything else—remains uncertain, unpredictable, open, free.

I like this job. I can't right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. 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.

We are being taught to think of a time different to the time we are in. Exam time. Job time. When-we-are-grown-up time.

Think of all that possibility. It's exciting.' 'Yes. I suppose it is.' 'A whole life in front of you.' 'A whole life.' 'You could do anything, live anywhere. Somewhere a bit less cold and wet.

Maar het punt is: je weet niet wat de toekomst brengen zal. Je kijkt naar het nieuws en dat lijkt angstaanjagend. Maar je weet het nooit zeker. Dat is het hele punt met de toekomst. Je weet het niet. Op een gegeven moment moet je accepteren dat je het niet weet. Je moet ophouden met vooruit te bladeren en je gewoon concentreren op de bladzijde waar je bent.

If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy, we can't be happy. It is like demanding the sea be entirely still before we sail on it.

I like this job. I can't right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. 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. It isn't playing the lute for Shakespeare, or the piano at Ciro's, but it's something as good. And goodness has its own kind of harmony.

Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear.

It's hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy.

One of the key symptoms of depression is to see no hope. No future. Far from the tunnel having light at the end of it, it seems like it is blocked at both ends, and you are inside it. So if I could have only known the future, that there woudl be one far brighter than anything I'd experienced, then one end of that tunnel would have been blown to peices, and I could have faced the light.

But we must never feel – personally or as a culture – that only one version of the future is inevitable. The future is ours to shape.

It's true. You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versailles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don't get away with anything.

Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential.

The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it, the future would have turned into the present. The present was all there was. The ever-moving, ever-changing present. And the present was fickle. It could only be caught by letting go.

Such a sadness to that word, don't you think? Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear [...] What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.

so every present moment is paying for a future one.

There are many different possible lives ahead of you.

How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

saya rasa kehidupan selalu menyediakan alasan agar kita tidak mati, seandainya kita memasang telinga baik-baik. Alasan-alasan itu bisa berasal dari masa lalu - mungkin orang-orang yang membesarkan kita, sahabat-sahabat, atau para mantan kekasih - atau dari masa depan - ada kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang kita matikan.

There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other. Yes. It is clear. In those moments that burst alive the present last for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

All new future begins at midnight."~Mrs. Elm