Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make. The Killer Hook
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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Albert Camus
You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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Brian Tracy
Love is the only future God offers.
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Victor Hugo
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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