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
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-Jim Morrison
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-Winston S. Churchill
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
-David Gerrold
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
-Charles F. Kettering
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
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"
