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“The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.”

“Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.”

Wells Mean Littles Doe Shows Influence Promise Future Good Things Foolish Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.”

Alive Promise Future Surround Ominous Halos

Book:Art as Experience

Source: Art as Experience

“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

“Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.”

Ifs Would Be Promise Future Threat Another Life

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

Literature Promise Future Threat Switching Kept Promises Invisible Monsters Promise Of The Future

Book:Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters