Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Do not hold on to someone who is leaving, for you will not meet the one who is arriving.
A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future can be built.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Why worry about the future? Live in the present, where reality is.
The future of mankind lies in the awakening of the spiritual mind.
The truth of tomorrow is born in the courageous thoughts of today.
Freedom is not a future reward, but the discovery of who you have always been.
The future belongs to nations that invest boldly in science, education, and ethical values.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
If while washing dishes, we only think of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way... we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.
Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of our life.
One generation plants the cedar trees; another generation enjoys the shade.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist. Be in the present.
Do not let future things disturb you, for you will come to them, if you shall at all, having the same reason which now you use on present things.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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