Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?
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Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?
In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.
Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be; but if I should, remember that fault-finding is perhaps both my privilege and my weakness, that correction is the only road to improvement, and that my quick temper and illness are entitled to some consideration.
Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.
Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
The never-ending flight Of future days.
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
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