You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
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.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear...
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
The Unmarried Mother: [Referring to her future] This life. Is it lonely? The Bartender: No family. The Unmarried Mother: No. The Bartender: But, you do have a purpose.
Forming Holiness with filthy hands and heart which leads to a disastrous future is like trying to impress or form when your life is without formation.
When thinking about life, remember this: No amount of guilt can solve the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.
Your minds PERCEPTION of the past will change your future vision, and either prevent or propel forward progress in life.
A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future
