#future

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. ↗

— Kage Baker

#history #human-experience #past-and-future #past-and-present #science-fiction

You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cheat #cheated #cheating #future #happiness

If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#experience #feel #future #life #truth

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please ↗

— Anne Brontë

#future #happiness #men #women #freedom

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#insightful #space-exploration #the-future #imagination

I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too. ↗

— Hugo Cabret

#machinery #machines #man #reasons #imagination

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 ↗

— Michael Chabon

#imagination

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#delay #fear #future #haste #inspiring-quotes

Once upon a time, began the story of you. Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened. And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are. Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#events #future #life #lifetime #past

O, het is met de verte als met de toekomst! Een wijd, schemerachtig vergezicht ligt voor ons, onze ziel en onze ogen drinken het in, en wij haken ernaar ons er helemaal aan over te geven, om in alle gelukzaligheid van één groot, heerlijk gevoel te zijn vervuld. Maar och, als we erop afvliegen, dan is alles zoals tevoren en staan wij in onze armoede, in onze beperktheid, en onze ziel dorst naar ontglipte lafenis. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#inspirational #toekomst #inspirational