Quotes About Future

Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.

Each of us carries around an unspoken set of assumptions that dictate how we expect our lives will unfold. These expectations come from all corners and influence us more than we admit.

As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.

So here is the bad news and the good news. The story of human life on Earth is yet to be determined. If there is to be an Act V, it will depend on whether we humans are willing to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs and behaviors and whether we are able to make these changes in time.

People who live in the past sacrifice their lives in vain. The past offers one set of data, but not necessarily the one that matters most.

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Anxiety. — Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

These were the kids destined to live the hardworking lives of their parents and take up their fathers' trades, the future farmers, homemakers and baby makers, if they could scoot through these few years of wild pounding hormones without getting hurt or hurting someone else. If they could keep out of jail for this short stretch, most would go on to be the spine of American society - fixing the cars, working the factories, growing the food and fighting the wars.

Was auch immer ihre Beweggründe waren - klug oder unklug, davonrennen oder oder nach Neuem suchen-, es erforderte Mut und Entschlossenheit und das Bedürfnis nach einer letzten Chance, um an die Zukunft zu glauben.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

Wellspring looked grave. "You realize that an entire future destiny might accrete around this momentary utterance? It's from just such nuclei of free will that the future grows, in smooth determinism.

I won the school essay contest!" Laszlo piped up in English. "I get to stay with the president today!" Maya swallowed hard. "That's great, kid. You must be really proud." "I am the future," Laszlo confided shyly. "I'm a big ragamuffin," Maya said.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

all clung to the hope that whenever America fell short of its ideals, young Americans could restore them.

All education is based on a middle-class morality that finds its psychoanalytic equivalent in a powerfully developed reality principle which insists that one must largely forego present pleasure for greater gains in the future. The trouble is that this, too, is not learned on a rational basis, but through anxiety instilled by the parents and by their example. If parents do not live by a stringent morality and by the reality principle, neither will their children.

The wish for a new life is predicated on the hope that one can have a better one, and the despair that such a better life cannot be grafted onto the present one.

Strange though it sounds, if we're "running out" of anything, it's people.

The healthiest congregations with the most thoughtful worship engage in an eclectic mix of worship expression that keeps faith fresh, serves multiple generations, stays rooted in the past, blossoms toward the future, stimulates childlike love, strives for excellence in presentation, bridges cultural barriers, and encourages ever-greater understanding.

It's amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.

No, I am sure that He who, notwithstanding his apparent prodigality, created nothing without a purpose, and wasted not a single atom in all his creation, has made provision for a future life in which man's universal longing for immortality will find its realization. I am as sure that we live again as I am sure that we live today.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.