To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.

John Dewey
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  1. 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. - Albert Camus

  2. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy

  3. Love is the only future God offers. - Victor Hugo

  4. 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. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  5. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk

More Quotes By John Dewey
  1. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

  2. The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

  3. There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so...

  4. Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

  5. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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