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 Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class is its future. - Ayn Rand  People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday. Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. You can never plan the future by the past. One must care about a world one will not see. If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me. The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. The future comes one day at a time. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw. With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. The future is not a gift - it is an achievement. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. That which is escaped now is pain to come. - Proverbs Light tomorrow with today! If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today. The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. The future is purchased by the present. Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. The world will be saved by one or two people. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. The future comes one day at a time. There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. - Horace There is no data on the future. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future. The future is hidden even from those who make it. They who lose today may win tomorrow. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. When all else is lost, the future still remains. There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out. Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present. He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp. Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. - Lucan We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces. - Emmanuel See how time makes all grief decay. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. Take therefore no thought of the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. - Bible Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us. The future is only the past again, entered through another gate. The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. The future is the shape of things to come. The future is the past in preparation. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. The future is hope! The future is a great land. The future is wider than vision, and has no end. Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. When I look to the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. You cannot plan the future by the past. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations. Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life-its wonderful surprises. When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes. Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. The future is made of the same stuff as the present. The future is much like the present, only longer. By-and-by never comes. The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best. For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality. I fear there will be no future for those who do not change. If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. You learn to build your roads on today, because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future. 
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