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"
Quotations
Future
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
-Jon Bon Jovi
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
-Francis Crick
"Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul"
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
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"
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
