He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream. G. K. Chesterton
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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 G. K. Chesterton
  1. Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

  2. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  3. Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

  4. The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

  5. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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