“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.”— John O'Donohue, amazon.com
“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.”— Kristen Chandler, amazon.com
“Based on my daily routines and actions, where can I expect to be in five years?”— Marc Chernoff, marcandangel.com
“Stepping too far into the future. Contrary to popular opinion, people aren’t so desperate for a mate and to settle down that it’s a turn-on for you to start talking about your future or talking in the future tense before numbers have been exchanged or you even know the person!”— NATALIE, baggagereclaim.co.uk
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it’s easy to believe in yourself. It does not count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It does not count if you think you’re going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you. It counts when it’s…”— pleasefindthis, amazon.com
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“In the end, I just truly hope we both find people who finally won’t be our almost.”— Shaun Ferrer, thoughtcatalog.com
“The worst thing about an almost relationship is the potential that could have been but never was. It leaves you aching for month’s even years after things have ended. It leaves you yearning, unjustifiably, for a future that will never exist with the other person.”— David Lorenzo, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had…”— Jerry Spinelli, amazon.com
“Live today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You talk about things you'll do together in the future, without realizing you're talking about the future. It's not weird to talk about that concert that's in three months or the trip you want to take to the beach this summer around him, because he'll be around to go with you.”— Hannah Smothers, cosmopolitan.com