Future Quotes - Page 19

• Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
  [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
  Appone.]

  Horace

  Stores, Cease

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• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• Is there a rarer being,
  Is there a fairer sphere
  Where the strong are not unseeing,
  And the harvests are not sere;
  Where, ere the seasons dwindle
  They yield their due return;
  Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
  While the flames of youth still burn?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Yield, Flames

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Dip, Twenties, Thirty

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.90

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• We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Believe, Land, May

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1848). “Poems of Early and After Years”, p.73

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• Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

  Joseph Addison

  Dream, Men, News

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.463

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• O Death, O Beyond,
  Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Art, Strange

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.162

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• The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.
  [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit;
  Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

  Ovid

  Taken, Hunters, Found

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• We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
  [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

  Ovid

  Two, Duos, Form

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• They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

  Samuel Johnson

  Looks, Littles, Sensations

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.228

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• How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Today, Projects

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Age, Use, Inheritance

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• Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.

  Richard Crashaw

  Eye, Destiny, Shady

  'Wishes to His Supposed Mistress' (1648)

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• And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

  Max Lucado

  God, Courage, Honesty

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

  Emma Goldman

  Chaos, Harmony

  "Free speech, war: Berkeley beat goes on" by Roderick Nordell, www.csmonitor.com. January 16, 2003.

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• Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Circles, Heaven, May

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

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• The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

  Alexander Pope

  Knowing, Littles, Haste

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1788). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.272

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• The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

  John Milton

  Men, Together, Spirit

  John Milton (1825). “A Treatise on Christian Doctrine: Comp. from the Holy Scriptures Alone”, p.368

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• The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Past, Design

  Blaise Pascal (1727). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects”, p.178

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• of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

  Erica Jong

  Fear, Foolish, Humankind

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• But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Secret, Moles, Shy

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

  Philip James Bailey

  Lifts, Shrouds

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.57

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• Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Past, Mindfulness, Holding On

  B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Waiting, Sometimes, Fronts

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.65, Vintage

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• advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Hands, Years, Mouths

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.370, Atlantic Monthly Press

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