It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
One faces the future with one’s past.
If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.
Predictions are preposterous.
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
