Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military read more

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that read more

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the read more

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong,
Hope starves without a crumb;
But God's time is read more

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong,
Hope starves without a crumb;
But God's time is our harvest time,
And that is sure to come.

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important read more

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.