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Quotes About Future

La cosa più intollerabile è che si trasformi in passato chi si ricorda come futuro
~ Javier Marías
Al fin y al cabo, el que fue lo contiene el de ahora, el que está y no está y el que va y viene, nadie más puede albergarlo.
~ Javier Marías
El pasado tiene un futuro con el que nunca contamos".
~ Javier Marías
que lo que fue está también integrado por lo que no fue, y que lo que no fue aún puede ser.
~ Javier Marías
If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The Identity Conversation looks inward: it's all about who we are and how we see ourselves. How does what happened affect my self-esteem, my self-image, my sense of who I am in the world? What impact will it have on my future? What self-doubts do I harbor?
~ Douglas Stone
Only you can control your future.
~ Dr. Seuss
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)
~ E.E. Cummings
tomorrow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now
~ E.E. Cummings
tomorrow is our permanent address
~ E.E. Cummings
Yet I know these are the happy years. And ahead of us are only great disasters.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I am truly anxious to get on with my life.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
~ Eckhart Tolle
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you can become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the Now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Belief in a future heaven creates a present hell.
~ Eckhart Tolle
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you live through the ego, you always reduce the present moment to a means to an end. You live for the future, and when you achieve your goals, they don't satisfy you, at least not for long. When you give more attention to the doing than to the future result that you want to achieve through it, you break the old egoic conditioning. Your doing then becomes not only a great deal more effective, but infinitely more fulfilling and joyful.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Problem means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing you can do now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You
~ Eckhart Tolle