“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
“The future is already here – it s just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003”
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
“Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It s really not even fair to everyone else.”
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
“And I realized that there s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”
“The future you have, tomorrow, won t be the same future you had, yesterday.”
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”
“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”