Quotes About Future

What's wrong with feeling nostalgic? It's the only distraction left for those who have no faith in the future." Nostalgia can be a dangerous distraction, and it can underpin a feeling of resignation or hopelessness after a fall.

In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they're about brains, but in the future they'll be about the heart.1 —MINOUCHE SHAFIK, director, London School of Economics

I want to live in a world with braver, bolder leaders, and I want to be able to pass that kind of world on to my children.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present. Fear is a negative, short-lasting, high-alert emotion in response to a perceived threat, and, like anxiety, it can be measured as a state or trait.

PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER "Now is the moment you've been waiting for. Some have been waiting their entire lives. It is time to put your dress together. It is time to prepare for the future." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954 Forty-Nine The bride

I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with." ~Sean O'Neill

I cling to this because to hope for this earth to go on after we're gone is the only kind of love left– the last good human piece of us.

There is a myth flourishing in the church today that has caused incalculable harm: once converted, fully converted. In other words, once I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, an irreversible, sinless future beckons. Discipleship will be an untarnished success story; life will be an unbroken upward spiral toward holiness.

A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?

Some day I'll come back and enjoy this place, he promised himself. And smiled to himself, knowing only too well that life had a way of never giving you the time to come back.

Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man's language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.

Never worry about what may happen tomorrow, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it won't. And don't take things too seriously, for very few things are worth it.

There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.

History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.

In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.

Siempre hemos vivido para crear buenos recuerdos, no para olvidar. Toda cultura se basa en la conservación y la búsqueda de recuerdos del pasado y, al mismo tiempo, en la creación de nuevos recuerdos. El arte mira hacia atrás y hacia delante.

Dos conceptos resumen lo que ha sido y, probablemente, también lo que va a ser: supervivencia y destrucción.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation that allows them to enter into a deep solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success, and to bring the light of Jesus there.