Future Quotes - Page 22

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  Sai Baba

  Inspirational, Past, What Matters

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• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Positive, Past

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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  I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

  Whitney Houston

  Beauty, Children, Believe

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• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Heart

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

  George Harrison

  Time, Carpe Diem, Past

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• I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life And Love, Party, Past

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Mean, Action

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

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• The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Gun, Civilization, Mind Blowing

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• I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Mean, Past

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Fighting, Today

  "The Romantic Manifesto". Book by Ayn Rand, 1969.

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  Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Men

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• Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Two, Waiting

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• Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Change, Past

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Sky

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Hope, Time

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Animal, Differences

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• Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.50, New World Library

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• 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

  Dream, Children, Self

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Character, Race

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