#Future

"Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future."

"The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past."

"Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity."

"Be the designer of your own future."

"We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."

"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."

"Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

"Those who look behind will never see beyond."

"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

"Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries."

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

"Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out."

"You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that."

"A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see."

"I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs."