Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring–not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason...

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read...

The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled – by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform...

In the morning I don’t want to know where I’ll be in the afternoon.

As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis of how she will see life and treat others in 20 years. So...

Stop a minute, Ambrose!” interrupted Master Nathaniel. “I’ve got a sudden silly whim that we should take an oath I must have read when I was a youngster in some old book… the words have...

I’d rather be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

What’s past is prologue, and the world awaits.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment – and the future.

You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools’ errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you’re good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he’s not important anymore, and the Internet...

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly...

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow’s headlines as near as this morning’s coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped...

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

You can’t change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don’t like the ending, you can make up a new one.

At the end of your struggles, challenges, and obstacles comes the mental strength to cross many boundaries in the future.

People live in different worlds. There’s a rich world, there’s a poor world, and there’s an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.

Thì ra cuộc đời tôi kỳ thực có khác nào con thuyền bơi ngược dòng sông không ngừng bị đẩy lui về dĩ vãng. Đối với tôi tương lai đã nằm lại phía sau xa...

One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can pursue our ideals of affluence, comfort, mobility, and leisure indefinitely. This curious faith...

…the movies are most people’s exposure to ideas about the future.

Program your life the way you want it to be: don’t waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

when you shoot for the stars, you can’t ever look back.

The future that we want – this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you’ve ever had about the future. You’re in it. You’re already in it. What is the purpose...

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than...

The best future to give to a child is to make him understand the future from the present. To live a distinctive footprint, live your life as from the end to the beginning and not...

I picture it like Judgement Day,’ he says finally, his eyes on the water. ‘We’ll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We’ll meet in that new place,...

Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or...

You can hardly call Deor old.’ Arisa wrapped her arms around herself; the breeze was brisk despite the sunlight. ‘He didn’t live long enough to get old. Why would he do that? I know kings...

The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.