“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know – what I’m supposed to want.”— Arthur Miller, amazon.com
“The past is gone for good. You can sit here mourning it’s departure, or prepare for the future.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“The past is the past, the future is all that is worth discussing.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”— Nora Ephron, washingtonpost.com
“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”— Joseph Campbell, goodreads.com
“Instead of chasing after boys, they chase after their hopes and dreams. They chase after the future they know they deserve.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”— Heath Ledger, lifeandstylemag.com
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, goodreads.com
“Kids feel so strongly about what’s going on today and what’s happening to the world, and that’s very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.”— Carl Hiaasen, washingtonpost.com
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”— Henry Stanley Haskins, amazon.com
“Every additional 10 months an employee stagnates in a role makes the person 1 percent more likely to leave the company.”— Inc., twitter.com
“I'm an optimist except when it comes to love, politics, government, relationships, environment and the future.”— Josh Peck, twitter.com