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 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
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"
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?"
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-Winston S. Churchill
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-Jim Morrison
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia
