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
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
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"
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
-Andy Warhol
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
