#future

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #relationships #society #love

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#future #gratitude #love #past #present

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#duplicities #future #heart #love #passion

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#compassion #future #hoarding #needs #present

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page. ↗

— Tori Amos

#moving-on #music #progress #music

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy. ↗

— Saul Williams

#def-poetry #determination #future #music #poetry

I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way. ↗

— Matchbox

#future #lyrics #music #music

Future warns us through current symptoms in nature. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nature #present #symptoms #warning #nature

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#future #leviathan #man #nature #science-fiction

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction #utopia #respect