#future

And I wished myself back—back to the future or wherever home was supposed to be—clicking my heels together in a frantic ticking heart staccato like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#dorothy #wizard-of-oz #home

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#crucify #fear #future #many #ourselves

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. ↗

— George Orwell

#imagination

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#labyrinth #life #past #present #imagination

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm. Our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs gets. It's really not even fair to everyone else. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#babies #bloodlines #future #humor #offspring

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#happiness #space #life

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#human-nature #past #life

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand.The future will be what it will,and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#life #wisdom #worry #life

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place. ↗

— Wilbur A. Smith

#life #monsoon #life

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning. ↗

— María Dueñas

#life-philosophy #normality #past-and-future #life