#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

#be happy #better #find #future #happy

The future is uncertain but the end is always near. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#future #time #end

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#oracle #prophecy #spirit

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#about #best #comes #day #future

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#planning #focus

The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled ↗

— Allama Muhammad Iqbal

#future #iqbal #poetry #revolution #visions

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#conformity #future #history #mainstream #new-orleans

All the problems in the world lead to one - narrow-minded people. my Incredible Future . ↗

— Ivan Stoikov - Allan Bard

#books #fantasy #incredible-future #sci-fy #scifi

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#living #past #imagination

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. ↗

— William Gibson

#future #imagination