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I can look at the future with anticipation. And it is comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I am not interested in. So, as far as I am concerned, I like only the past of things and people I do not know. When I know, I do not care because I knew how it was.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

We are at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

I am not good at future planning. I do not plan at all. I do not know what I am doing tomorrow. I do not have a day planner and I do not have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I have got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There is no future in it.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.