“Don't look behind you. Unless someone yells, "Look out behind you!" Then you should definitely look behind you because there's a good chance a Frisbee is being thrown at your head or, if you're in a movie, an attractive teenage vampire is about to attack you.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“I’m saying, for your own sake, for the sake of your future happiness, you have got to look away from it to start your journey forward. Once you do, your life will change. It’s not going to be overnight. It’s definitely not going to be momentary. But one day, you will wake up and find the heaviness o…”— Nikita Gill, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Lauren Oliver, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com
“Ultimately, here is the choice we face: we can either make the solution to the climate crisis the central organizing principle of global civilization— or the hostile conditions we are creating will grow rapidly worse, thickening the smothering blanket of global warming pollution surrounding our plan…”— Al Gore, amazon.com
“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.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle,Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.Thirty years now I have laboredTo dredge the silt from your throat.I am none the wiser.”— Sylvia Plath, poetryfoundation.org
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”— Theodore Roethke, poetryfoundation.org
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Software is the staging ground for the future, affording us the time and space to get our ethics right, before the stakes are raised.”— Farmer & Farmer, farmerandfarmer.org
“A time capsule is bottled optimism. It makes material the belief that human beings will survive long enough to retrieve and decode artifacts of the distant past. In 1938, during the planning stages of the Crypt of Civilization, Jacobs dedicated the vault’s massive steel door. His remarks exhibited a…”— Glenn Fleishman, theatlantic.com
“We don’t always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel.”— Scott Hildreth, amazon.com
“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com