Life Quotes

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

~ Simon Pegg

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

~ Wilbur Smith

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

~ Clive Barker

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

~ Robin Hobb

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

~ Jeremy Aldana

What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.

~ Lorrie Moore

I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

~ Thomas Hardy

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time.

~ Toba Beta

Future is ours, but victory is mine!

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Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

~ Machado De Assis

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said What will you be? What will you do? I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

~ Daniel Mason

Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

~ Kahlil Gibran

It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself. No milestones marked its progress. No trees grew along it. No dappled shadows shaded it. No mists rolled over it. No birds circled it. No twists, no turns or hairpin bends obscured even momentarily, her clear view of the end. This filled Ammu with an awful dread, because she was not the kind of woman who wanted her future told. She dreaded it too much. So if she were granted one small wish perhaps it would have been Not to Know, Not to know what each day had in store for her. Not to know where she might be, next month, next year. Ten years on. Not to know which way her road might turn and what lay beyond the bend.

~ Arundhati Roy

The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.

~ Amin Maalouf

Find the Key ! Find the Key ! If you want to open the Doors of Heaven ! Without which, you can at best, look from outside, like the pauper looking in through the window at your food when hungry. Find the Key !

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

~ Kristin Hannah

We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and count. We can preserve food for lifetimes, and in times of crisis, we can find ways to ensure our survival. With each passing generation, our sphere of control of our existence is larger. What if the earth is hit by an asteroid or there is no way to stop global warming? We look to colonize other planets. The fate of our species, in a few years, will not be tied to the fate of the earth. Our home planet must be cared for ... but as we go interplanetary and then interstellar, our control on our lives and the evolution of our species grows. As far as we know, we are the only species that has a say in the development of its future.

~ Tarun Betala

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for something, one came out clutching - what? A bit of string, scraps of cloth, shadows of the golden time. If one could only reverse it, turn the past into future, and catch it on the wing, on its journey across the always shifting line of the present ...

~ Rohinton Mistry

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.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?

~ J. Limbu

You can't have a wrong mentality about life and expect that you will see the bright side of life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.

~ Germany Kent

You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you

~ Sunday Adelaja

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

~ Mohsin Hamid

My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Don’t give up on trying everyday, those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

~ Broken

We think a lot of things but can not take the right steps at the right time. And this is why the next time we're gonna regret.

~ Sudeb Gharami

You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

I know I could be Anything,But i rather Be Myself.

~ Look Im A Cat

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is no past, present, or future; there is only meow, right meow, and what you do with your one shot at life.

~ Aaron Dennis

...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all.

~ Jennifer Niven

Live for the present, and the future will be known before it ever happens.

~ Avinash Rao

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are, it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

Just because we’ve made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now.

~ Toni Sorenson