future

One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done so, what remained was to free myself from the prospect of the future.("The Tower")

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.

They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live.

In a tired time, with the light outside drifting away for another day and the lights inside flickering as they come to life, I cup my hands together and prepare to give thanks ... to the life of a day given to me. A day shared with past and present, living and dying, of body and not, and a realization that in everything that is, there is something that was.

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.

I couldn__ live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.

... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

Don__ live in the past _ you__e already been there. And don__ live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now _ it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.

the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com

Aren__ you at all curious about your past?_ Rhys asked.__o, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you choose to be, not who your parents were.___ut as a scientist you know that prior events influence it, and the future.___n physics, yes. In people, no.

Look at this site - it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake. You do not know what was here 40-50 years back. Probably, a ditch full of stagnant water and mud breeding mosquitoes. Now here we have beautiful lake surrounded by lush green bushes and beautiful flowers. The place is beautiful today, so we come and enjoy its company, its presence. We do not think about its past or we do not to know what will happen here years later. We enjoy the beauty of its present.

I think you__e freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you."____e been through worse, Bex,_ I said, joining her on the lower stairs. __ay worse.___h, not the attack._ Bex raised her finger in contradiction. __hat happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn__ think you were going to have one.

I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way.

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!