“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”— Barbara Taylor Bradford, amazon.com
“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise. You’re doing just fine.”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com
“Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.”— Dan Pearce, amazon.com
“We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are o…”— Idowu Koyenikan, amazon.com
“We might not get to choose who we’re born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.”— Reilyn J. Hardy, amazon.com
“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live.”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Make a Pinterest board for your dreams for the future. Sometimes when you're missing each other terribly, focusing on the future you plan to make together will remind you of the end goal of this temporary suffering.”— Teresa Newsome, bustle.com
“One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And that someday is yesterday. And this is your life.”— Mark Schwahn, Nathan Scott, James Lafferty, imdb.com
“She doesn’t want to fall for someone new the second they lock eyes. She doesn’t want to imagine a future when there’s barely even a present. But she can’t help it. It’s the way that she is.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?”— Edith Pearlman, amazon.com
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.”— Shannon A. Thompson, amazon.com