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21 " I think in many ways that even though the pages of our future are still blank, even though we are still confounded by the unending choices we make that will forever decide our future, even with all of this uncertainty, the pages of our future seem to be written in invisible ink. It’s as if the pages shutter and grow restless under the weight of this ink, wanting to open up to the final pages to show us we need not worry. But alas the pages seem blank to us, and were it not for faith I too would shutter at the prospect of a future, any future. But it is with this faith that I say come forth with your future, any future you wish. I do not need to know the score, I accept that every ending is right in its own way, and my future and yours will be in harmony with the universe. "
22 " Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. "
― Naomi Campbell
23 " We like to see our future through our children "
24 " Women have been driven mad, " gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other. "
25 " The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past. "
― Palle Oswald
26 " Life is full of different opportunities and decisions to make, and these decisions are what mold our future and “destiny”, and the results of these decisions are a product of hard work and determination and just maybe a little bit of luck. "
27 " We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition "
― William Gibson , Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
28 " The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. "
29 " Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray
30 " If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past? "
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
31 " The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones. "
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32 " We cannot turn back the clock and relive cherished pastimes. We move beyond our origins. A person must make their way in an evolving social, political, and economic world order. We must not be too quick writing off the influence of our prior experiences, because the long tentacles the past remain vibrant strands within us. While the past does not cast our future in stone, its durable mold shapes our present. The ingrained strumming of our personal histories, sentimental or otherwise, also portents what might come along in our future. "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
33 " The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it. "
― Carl Sagan , Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
34 " Most of us are too focused on our future that we forget to live our present. "
― Raaz Ojha
35 " We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
36 " This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it. "
― Debasish Mridha
37 " As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator. "
38 " Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present. "
39 " But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have? "
― Catherynne M. Valente , The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3)
40 " It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity. "
― Steve Maraboli , Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience