“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”— Tim O'Brien, amazon.com
“It was becoming a habit--this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.”— John Green, amazon.com
“And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.”— Chris Bohjalian, books.google.com
“What I’ve come to realize is that all my fears of the future are actually fears of the past. Each of us has a whole bank of awful moments in our memories, each of which are so painful that we can’t accept that we could experience the same pain again.”— David Cain, thoughtcatalog.com
“Think about the last time you were scared, what happened? Chances are, you made it.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is most of us worry ourselves with things that are most likely never going to happen. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but fiction will scare us more than reality, most times.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you are scared of tomorrow, think of the things you can control today, the things you have now, think of just today and how you can get through it. Think of how you can make today slightly better, think of how you can make this day a good day in case history repeats itself tomorrow. Think of maki…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“We fear the future will mirror our past, because we are born to believe that history repeats itself. But human beings are not history, they reinvent themselves instead of repeating themselves.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“The only way you can ensure having a good future is by living a good present. That’s it. That’s the secret to getting exactly what you want out of life.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“All of those fears you had in the past, those vintage anxieties that kept you up in 2004, where are they now? That’s right, they’re gone. You killed all of them. You got over it. You lived.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your futu…”— Amanda Howells, amazon.com
“If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.”— Jessica Therrien, 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
“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realize that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the wo…”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”— Kahlil Gibran, books.google.com