Future Quotes - Page 29

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

From today, painting is dead.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.

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.

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues