4,759 Quotes About Future

That is the other important point of this book. We can’t go back to the past, and we can’t even hold on to what we have now. Something new is coming—and indeed, in some way, all four futures are already here, “unevenly distributed,” in William Gibson’s phrase. It’s up to us to build the collective power to fight for the futures we want.

Don't worry much about the future, it will still happen the same way with or without you. Today cannot be fixed once it becomes history.

But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it.

Things in our world may not play out with such literal deceptions, but we can already see how our political and economic elites manage to justify ever-higher levels of misery and death while remaining convinced that they are great humanitarians.

It wasn't an endless future, and it wasn't one with a clearly defined goal, but maybe that was what living actually felt like.

COURAGE Sometimes you need to be envied or admired to trust yourself. It's no use thinking about the past. Only the present and the future

You cannot change your past but you can change your future.

Planning for, or worrying about, a particular portion of the future does not increase your chances of reaching it.

Forgive yourself and others for a painful past and reward yourself with a great future.