When I close my eyes, my head is filled with images of past and future lives, the things I dreamed I wanted, the things I had and threw away.
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Quotes tagged ‘Future’
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
Your twenties are meant for making mistakes and experiencing new things in order to figure out what you want and do not want to be a part of your future.
Success in your twenties is more about setting the table than enjoying the feast.
Our twenties are about what we plant in the ground, not about what we harvest. We can’t keep pulling our seeds out of the dirt before it has time to grow.
To hope is to contradict the future.
I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
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.
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
You kill your future by mourning the past.
They never talk about the future. You don’t have to plan your wedding and your house and kids, but bringing up plans to hang out in the future is a good sign—and not doing it is kind of a bad one. They should be making more room for you in their schedule with more preparation than just a late night…
If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.
When you envision your future, he has a major role in it (and vice versa). The idea of spending the rest of your life with him doesn't scare you. Being by his side is where you feel most comfortable.
In the right relationship both partners are enthusiastic about a future together. And while not everything lasts forever, partners who share a vision for what their future entails are in a much better position than partners who don’t.