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.
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Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by read more
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
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.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a
gift whatever the day brings read more
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a
gift whatever the day brings forth.
[Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
Appone.]
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the read more
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
The future will be better tomorrow
The future will be better tomorrow
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human read more
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient read more
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.
