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
Quotations
Future
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
There are many tomorrows,
There is only one today.
-Joaquin Miller
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-Winston S. Churchill
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-Terri Guillemets
Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.
-Dodinsky
