The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: future memory past nostalgia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: future inconvenience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: reality future memory past dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stop looking at the past and all the things you can’t change. They’re done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. —Lacey Weatherford in Chasing Nikki More about this quote Tags: power future past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don’t know what comes next. I can’t know, until I’ve walked the road I’ve chosen. I don’t have a plan, and there is no map for this. It’s terrifying, but there’s a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret. —Jessi Kirby in Golden More about this quote Tags: fear future regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now. —Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin More about this quote Tags: action now future past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: time future past present Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: life future knowledge uncertainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When all else is lost, the future still remains. —Christian Nestell Bovee More about this quote Tags: future loss possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed? —Stephen Covey More about this quote Tags: love time future vision children struggle place Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have seen the future and it doesn't work. —Robert Fulford More about this quote Tags: future functionality working Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come." —Dave Kellett More about this quote Tags: future knowledge school Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: satisfaction future past present Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: future change planning preperation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was another of those big life-changing moments when you didn’t know what the next ten seconds would bring but you knew that nothing would ever be the same after. —Sarra Manning in Unsticky More about this quote Tags: life time future change moments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email