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
Quotations
Future
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
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?"
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-C. S. Lewis
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
-David Gerrold
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"
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
