Quotes About Future

It's not who you've been; it's who you decide to become—and that changes the story you're about to live.

mastering one's future must surely start with managing one's "self." And if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part of what we call "life.

What path from what past, what journeys towards what future when departure and destination of every moment is in the direction of dance

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

This grace does not undo a tragedy or pardon a wrong, but it becomes the first step toward a more hopeful future.

Rick talked about hope as a life-sustaining force that is rooted in our relationship with the future. He wrote, "Just as our ancestors did, today we think about getting from where we are now, let's call it Point A, to where we want to be, say Point B.

Hope also walks hand in hand with fear, one of the most universal and most painful emotions. When fear is working for us, it reminds us of realistic limits or alerts us when we're straying from our path to a meaningful future. But fear can also hijack us. Fear gives us only three behavioral options: fight, flight, or freeze.

Sometimes I was fantasizing: I had big thoughts that were pure fun and entertainment about a fast convertible, next summer's vacation, or retirement on the beach. These gave me a quick high—sometimes followed by a bit of a low. At other times I was dwelling: I hyperfocused my future thoughts on the bad things that might happen, such as struggling to get a job, taking thirty years to pay off my student loans, or never being able to retire. These made me anxious.

And sometimes my thoughts balanced fantasizing and dwelling, which were exciting thoughts about my future even while I acknowledged the challenges before me. That's when I was hoping. Hoping felt different than the other types of future thinking. When hoping, I felt compelled to act.

You can get there from here." That favorite saying of Rick's has become one of mine, too. It's shorthand for a potent way of thinking about the future. "Here" is the present, which is in some way less desirable than our imagined future. "There" is the target of our longing. And "you" are the one moving yourself from here to there. We expect something from the future, and also from ourselves.

The future will be better than the present. I have the power to make it so. The first belief comes naturally to us.

We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.

I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.

This world would be a better place to live if the entire mankind forgets what happened in history (events that have happened before they were born!) and just focus on the present and coming future.

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.

We're always living days we can never get back. So we make new ones. That's all.

Why does every "now" have to be ruined by what will be?

Theologian Rubem Alves once said, "Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it."6

My own master's instruction was that, when one is sorely tried, and the wisdom of the past has failed, it is our duty to find new wisdom from which to shape the future.

The promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past.

the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.

but it was my duty to warn her before she ruined her future with her headstrong ways. Much as I wanted her to be safe and happy, I never had much luck talking sense into Zona. She was always dead set on doing whatever she pleased, and she was always sure that she knew best. That quarrel between us blew over, as they always did, but I didn't hold out much hope that she would remember my warning, even though I had told her the plain truth.