You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
Quotations
Future
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
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
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
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"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
