The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol
Quotations
Future
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?"
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
-Henry A. Kissinger
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.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
-Jon Bon Jovi
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
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
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
-Francis Crick
"Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul"
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
