Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
And in today already walks tomorrow.
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.
Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.
One faces the future with one's past.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
The future is purchased by the present.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
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