#future

We should use our imagination more than our memory. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#history #imagination #peace #progress #imagination

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind. ↗

— Katherine Marsh

#fate #past-and-future #life

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises. ↗

— Wade Davis

#memories #past #present #promises #west

Love is the only future God offers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #love #love

I promise I'll never tell." "Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?" "No." "Promise me." "No!" "I will possess your heart." Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?" "My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'" "By Death Cab for Cutie?" He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie." ... "Why? What's wrong with it?" "Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song." "No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'" A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?" His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will. ↗

— Jeri Smith-Ready

#hope #humor #love #romance #death

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#future #love

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#love #separation #love

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#love

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future. ↗

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#guys #lorraine-zago-rosenthal #love #move-on #past

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#reunion #love