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• The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

  George Will

  Change, History, Preparation

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

  Edward Gibbon

  Science, Past, Feet

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• We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

  William J. Clinton

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Helping

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.151, Best Books on

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• Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  God, Time, Heart

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Nature, Looks

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

  Horace

  Wise, Darkness, Obscure

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 304-06, Carmina, III. 29. 29, 1922.

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• The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Past, Cradle, Graves

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• That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

  Edwin Arnold

  Wells

  Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.312, e-artnow

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• The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Space, Earth, Environment

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• It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Heaven, Might, Spirit

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Intellectual, Voyages

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Sacred, Faces

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

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• You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 14, 2014

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• The same yesterday, today, and forever.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Jesus, Past

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2625, Moody Publishers

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• Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Hurt, History, Deep Thought

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Relationship, Women

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• Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

  Thomas Berry

  New Experiences, Psychics, Grace

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.170, Crown

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• Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

  Albert Camus

  Relationship, Positive, People

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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• There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Two

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

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• For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

  Gene Wilder

  Genius, Entering, Next

  "Young Frankenstein". www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Smile, Keep Smiling

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2015

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• We're all just memories of our future selves.

  Reggie Watts

  Memories, Self, People

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• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• 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

  Fear, Adventure, Worry

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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