Quotes about the future

She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.

Dreams are dreams and the future is like a hall of mirrors reflecting the past and offering up wavering illusions until everything shatters and you were cut to ribbons by shards of reality.

In every neck of the woods people walked in the imagination of doomsayers and talked the language of extinction. (p5)

Because she fears the past she distrusts the future — it, too, will turn into the past.

The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

Our histories are inevitably braided together with our futures.

For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.

You may have all the money in the world, Mr. Hobbs, I thought, you might own the whole universe and its particles thereof, you might gain interest on the stars and reap dividends from the moon, but I'm young and you're old and I have something you don't - a future.

I'd learned a valuable lesson: people almost never look up. Who knows why? Maybe they're looking at the soil for a preview of coming attractions. And so they should. I think anyone who says he looks to the future and doesn't have one eye on the dirt is being short-sighted.

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

What if trying to avoid the future is what triggers it all?

The past is past, the future unformed.

There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.