Future
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"The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future." Shiloh Morrison
"Yesterday and tomorrow
 cross and mix on the skyline.
 The two are lost in a purple haze.
 One forgets, one waits."
 Carl Sandburg
"A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections." Abraham Lincoln
"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." 
John Green
"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future" Deepak Chopra
"Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one." H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990



"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." George Bernard Shaw
"The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past..." Arthur C. Clarke
"Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your life." Naomi Shihab Nye [May 24, 2010
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"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it." Thomas Merton [May 20, 2010
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"No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear." George Macdonald
[May 11, 2009
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"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." George Orwell, 1984
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Onely one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at time." Winston Churchill
"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past." Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936) [May 05, 2008
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"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." Henry David Thoreau, from the chapter "Economy" in Walden
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie
"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace." Ronald Reagan
"I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind." May Sarton [May 18, 2007
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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.” William Durant
"When we put things off until some future — probably mythical — Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.” Peter McWilliams
“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” From The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy
“Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is the dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human sprit—which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time and throughout the whole length of your days.” Joseph Campbell
“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.” Carl Sagan [May 27, 2005
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“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” Marcel Pagnol
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson, Jr.
“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.” Joseph Addison
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” Buddha [May 26, 2003
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The children are both our near and distant future. It is by them and through them that we feel linked to the immortality of the human race.” Elie Wiesel
“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon the how our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves.” Margaret Mead
“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” Miles Davis
“The schools of the country are its future in miniature.” Tehyi Hsieh (Chinese Epigrams Inside Out and Proverbs)
“Most of us think having a list of priorities is a sign of a motivated, serious person. But there is one essential flaw in this perspective. We are not guaranteed a future; and even if we were we could not live in it. All we have is now.” George Lawrence-Ell (The Invisible Clock)
“If you want to know your past—look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future—look into your present actions.” Buddhist Saying
“The true meaning of life is to plan trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” Nelson Henderson
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” Ralph Waldo Emerson |
