Top 100 Live In The Future Quotes
#1. It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
Wendell Berry
#2. Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.
Natasha Lyonne
#3. In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people were tempted to live in the future, they quickly gave it up, as far as possible, suffering the wounds that the imagination eventually inflicts on those who trust in it.
Albert Camus
#4. Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.
Paulo Coelho
#5. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#6. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.
Denis Johnson
#7. I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.
Sara Sheridan
#8. Do not live in the future, only the present is real
B.K.S. Iyengar
#9. You have to live in the future, not the past.
Gordon Brown
#10. Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.
Johnny Galecki
#11. Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.
Frank Herbert
#12. As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'
Emmanuel Jal
#13. It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert
#14. It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
#15. How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% sure that they are killed in the time, we live in the future and they are killed in the past... so far a time teleport used by the adults!
Deyth Banger
#16. The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
Ray Kurzweil
#17. Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and dont forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
Sofia Milos
#18. Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
Emily Oster
#19. DIE in the past. Live in the future.
Mina Loy
#20. You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future
Sunday Adelaja
#21. If everyone could get on the same page and realize that we live in the future, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.
Dexter Palmer
#22. Too many live in the future. If you keep living in the future, in what may be, then the future gets shorter every minute.
Karina Halle
#23. because my childhood became all about prediction, I learned to live in the future. I didn't feel things in the present because I wanted to be a moving target, gone to the future before any blow could really be felt.
Gavin De Becker
#24. 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.
J.G. Holland
#25. All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you'll miss things, right here, right now, and you'll regret it later.
Jessica Therrien
#26. Im afraid to live in the future because of my past yet i dwell in the past and look forward to change in the future
Cheyenne
#27. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Frank Herbert
#28. Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
Lord Acton
#29. If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
Rudolf Steiner
#30. I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.
Romola Garai
#31. he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He'd already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.
Kirsten Beyer
#32. The online world has subsumed the physical one. We live in the future.
Dan Wells
#33. I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
George P. Shultz
#34. We can't live in our past, it is no more. We can't live in the future, it is yet to be formed. We can only live in His grace, day by day. Who could ask for less.
Lynette Chambers
#35. Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off.
So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota
#36. In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.
Tom Ford
#37. How are we supposed to live in the future when the future just abandons us to the night?
Warren Ellis
#38. But time's too short to enjoy the moment. Shall we live in the future to allow ourselves to see what the world has to offer? To throw away the chances of now and disregared pain until yesterday?
Matt
#39. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.
S. N. Goenka
#40. The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
Arnold Bennett
#41. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#42. That's the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live - to live in the present and to look forward to the future.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#43. Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.
James Chace
#44. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
#45. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.
Robert E.Lee
#46. That melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.
Marcel Proust
#47. In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
Eric Schmidt
#48. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
#49. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.
Matthew A. DeBettencourt
#50. The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.
Justin Cronin
#51. Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
Matt Emmons
#52. Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.
Theresa Cheung
#53. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.
Francis Harold Cook
#54. We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.
Dalai Lama
#55. In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
Andre Breton
#56. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.
Walter Percy
#57. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
Rick Danko
#58. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!
Debasish Mridha
#59. starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses.
Elena Ferrante
#60. They had their past to remember, the present to live in and the future to fear.
Jose Saramago
#61. Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#62. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#63. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley
#64. When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#65. The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Ian Jack
#67. That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.
Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.
David Baldacci
#68. If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.
Jim Stovall
#69. You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you
Sunday Adelaja
#70. The meeting of two eternities, the past and future ... is precisely the present moment.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. You needed a vision of the future in order to get anywhere; you couldn't live life thinking you were always about to fall off a cliff.
Alexandra Kleeman
#72. The streets are full of in-betweens, and no one is alarmed by the ghosts that live among us. Everyone here knows that the past inhabits the future. For now, I'm home.
Katie Gilmartin
#73. You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.
Rachel Caine
#74. Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.
Geezer Butler
#75. All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW
Michelle Warren
#76. Think about the future, Ranga, but do not live in it.
Ian B.G. Burns
#77. I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
Ken Hensley
#78. We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
Judy Grahn
#79. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#80. Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
Alan Lightman
#81. We see ... a future where no one-no one-is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.
Joe Biden
#82. Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we dream the future?
Truman Capote
#83. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#84. I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#85. You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
John Steinbeck
#86. Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.
Matthew Donnelly
#87. That's the problem with all of us. We've never time to think about the past, and we're always planning for the future. And since the future's always the future, we never live in the present.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#88. Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
Sivananda
#89. You never live in the moment. You've been living in the future since the day I was cursed.
Sarah Cross
#90. During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
Kate Millett
#91. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Rick Pitino
#92. Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#93. Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself ...
Paramahansa Yogananda
#94. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
Edward Kennedy
#95. If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#97. I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.
Alison Singh Gee
#98. There are tenses that define us now: past tense, back then; future tense, not yet. We live in the small window between them, the space we've only recently come to think as still, and really it's no smaller than anyone else's window.
Margaret Atwood
#99. The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.
Jacob Braude
#100. 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
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