Eternal Future Quotes

#1. Having an eternal perspective can help when considering various choices in our lives. If we are honest, some decisions we have made in our lives would have been made differently if we had taken the time to think of them in terms of our eternal future.

Vance C. Kessler

#2. But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#3. Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#5. Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Seth Shostak

#6. In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal.

Okakura Kakuzo

#7. One day we will all have to leave this beautiful world, and we want to leave with peace towards eternal peace. We also want our future generations to live with joy and peace.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Victory, union, faith, identity, time, Yourself, the present and future lands, the indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery, Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports. This, then, is life;

Anonymous

#9. Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Allen Ginsberg

#10. Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Louise J. Kaplan

#11. Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,
Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,
Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,
Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

Jasper Fforde

#12. We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Chiang Kai-shek

#13. In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

James Joyce

#15. If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

John Ashcroft

#16. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Human Angels

#17. If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

Anthony De Mello

#18. He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.

Rama Swami

#19. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Elif Shafak

#20. After establishing anything as the absolute truth, its' conclusion is reached. It doesn't have to be established as the truth again. What is proven as the eternal established truth for past, present and future is known as the Principle [Siddhant].

Dada Bhagwan

#21. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

Ronald Reagan

#22. Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit
which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.

Joseph Campbell

#23. Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

Ramana Maharshi

#24. When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.

Ilchi Lee

#25. Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

Wei Wu Wei

#26. As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.

Max Heindel

#27. Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Jean Paul

#28. Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Sri Chinmoy

#29. The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time
for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

C.S. Lewis

#30. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Alan W. Watts

#31. I was never sure what vampire powers Teddy had been gifted with. Victoria had the ability to read minds. Meekah could see visions of the future. Michael had been given eternal sexiness, I guessed.

S.J. Wright

#32. We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.

Thomas Ligotti

#33. We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.

H.E. Davey

#35. It is said that the future narrows once we cease to believe it is eternal...

Catherine Millet

#36. Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life - which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.

Billy Graham

#37. A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future.

Betty Eadie

#38. Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. I scrub the memory from my mind. There is no past. There is no future. Love, if that's what it is, is as short as it is eternal.

Chloe Thurlow

#40. Her dilemma - the eternal human dilemma - is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future.

Laura Lippman

#41. I may not write new wisdoms nor new ideas.
I write things which are about to happen in the future,
things which might be lost from memories of mankind,
things which stored forever in recollections of all beings.

Toba Beta

#42. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

H.E. Davey

#43. Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.

Ellen Key

#44. In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Alexander Pope

#45. Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

Masashi Kishimoto

#46. The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

Alan Watts

#47. Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there in those mansions sublime. And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed. Riches eternal and blessings supernal from His precious hand I received

John W. Peterson

#48. soul is taken as a subject matter to receive in the future life the reward or the punishment from God for our actions in this life; but the very idea of eternal punishment is inconsistent with the boundless love of God.

Kaiten Nukariya

#49. Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young ... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

Swami Vivekananda

#50. Eternal life truly begins the moment you're born again. It's a present tense - not future tense - reality. If you're a believer, eternal life is now!

Andrew Wommack

#51. The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#52. The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#53. Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Ray Simpson

#54. Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

Watchman Nee

#55. Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in a future world, I deny the past. I believe entirely in the present. Employ your entire body and mind in the eternal now.

Santoka Taneda

#56. There was no need to hurry that future - yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

Pearl S. Buck

#57. Do you believe in a future everlasting life?
No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#58. I'm just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth.

B. Barmanbek

#59. Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
The past, the present, and the future time.
Thy reminiscences transport the soul
To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

Parley P. Pratt