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Source: A Treatise on Christian Doctrine: Comp. from the Holy Scriptures Alone

“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

Mean Use Past Design Objects Future Mark Aim Instruments Past And Present

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

“of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.”

Fear Future Foolish Humankind Fear Of The Future

Author:Erica Jong

“But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.”

Secret Future Shy My Future Moles

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.”

Knows Doe Stills Home Sleep Sea Land Wind Tomorrow Future Skins Trade Wave Blow Boat Hanging Out Fog Floats Folds Sleeping In

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”

Science Future Illiteracy Hunger And Poverty Hunger Poverty

Book:Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979

Source: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979

“Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.”

Future Lifts Shrouds

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.”

Past Future Mindfulness Happenings Holding On Immediacy

Book:Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Source: Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

“To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.”

May Turns Evil Lost Future Lays Instance Apprehension Unwise

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.”

I Can Sometimes Waiting Fronts Future Edges

Book:A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

“advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.”

Knows Years Stills Hands Next Future Mouths Paid Delusion Day To Day Next Year Nickels

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.”

Years Believe Able Next Existence Future Notion Metaphysical Next Year

Author:Madame de Stael

“We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.”

Growth Future Statistics Pollution Percentages Overpopulation Environmental Pollution Air Quality

Author:Gunter Grass

“The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.”

Thinking World Needs Faces Found Future Responsible Sacred Arise Hopelessness Inability Here And Now Live In The Present Hopes Up

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“The glories of the possible are ours.”

Future Glory

Book:The Picture of St. John

Source: The Picture of St. John

“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”

Ifs Happiness Death Depends Future Expected Abyss Chasing Elude Wisps

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

Worry Progress Future

Book:The essence of Alan Watts

Source: The essence of Alan Watts

“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.”

Trying Years Mind Doe Ends Lasts Hours Theory Future Sells Tired Dollars Last Year Furniture Barren End Of Life Shabby

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.”

Moving Form Strong Cases Knowing Particular Future Concern Indolence

Author:Alec Waugh

“What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.”

Past Simple Responsibility Gratitude Future All Things Infinite Things Past

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.”

Hours Trouble Possibility Future Blessing Uncertainty Fixed

Author:King James I

“Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.”

May Reality Future Draws Treasure Prize Uncertain

Author:Lord Dunsany

“Let us be such as help the life of the future.”

Helping Future

Author:Zoroaster

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.”

World Giving Feels Mind Heart Feelings Reality Eye Land Promise Future Difficulty Dues Fixed Our Thoughts Thoughts And Feelings Looking Away

Author:Augustus William Hare

“Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Source: A Season in Hell: A Memoir

“You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.”

Future Balls Crystals Popcorn Crystal Ball

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.”

“My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.”

World Mind States Whole Moments Force Future Irresistible Irresistible Force

Book:The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett

Source: The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett

“Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.”

Future This Life Enjoyment

Author:Francis Atterbury

“The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.”

World Future Importance Certainty Remedy Another World Inconvenience

Author:Francis Atterbury

“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”

World Made Motivational Decision Future Accounts Inevitable Decision Making Sensible Continuing Dominant Graphic Design Project Management Creating Change Inevitable Change Continuing On

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.”

Joy Tomorrow Future Belonging

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.”

May Soul States Enough Heaven Hell Future Opposites Fixed Good Enough Pointing

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.”

States Existence Teach Forever Strange Circumstances Future This Life Our Thoughts Departure

Author:Orville Dewey

“We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.”

Made Inspire Future Delightful Discontent

Author:J. G. Holland

“The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.”

Humans Age Past Flower Future Opening Golden Human Experience Eden Golden Age Gethsemane

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.”

Ifs World Way Want Use Light Hope Imagination Vision Focus Imagine Future Anxiety Shining Thrive Brighter

Author:Ian Lawton

“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.”

Humans Littles Past Goal Human Beings Ability Attention Future Mindfulness Concentration Orientation

Author:Ian Gawler

“Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.”

Past Future Nuts

Author:Evelyn Nesbit

“Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.”

Knows Real Forget Future

Book:Crusoe's Daughter

Source: Crusoe's Daughter

“When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.”

Earth Fire Future

Author:Suetonius

“Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.”

Action Past Future Majors Longing Factors Appropriate Fear Of The Future

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Has Beens Past Given Future Built Our Past

Book:Sing Out the Glory

Source: Sing Out the Glory

“I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.”

Past Remember Desire Fear Imagine Future Timeless Remembering The Past

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”

Life Next Business Knowing Future Anxiety Uncertainty Permanent Memorable Not Knowing Uncertain Left Hand Uncertainty And Doubt Uncertainty Of Life

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.”

Mean Moments Past Realizing Existence Beauty Practice Future Clarity Useless Present Moment Daydreaming

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.”

Ifs Kind Littles Hard Done Cutting Future Corruption Honestly Flight Fancy Guts Chickens Interpretation Invites Hacking Fowl

Author:Ian Hacking

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