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50 Quotes That'll Ease Your Anxiety About The Future

If you live in the future, you'll miss things, right here, right now. 
Holly Riordan
August 18, 2016
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Reading Kierkegaard : from Irony to Edification
Tagged: Future, Life, worries, Stress
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt,, Partner to History
Tagged: Future, Dreams, Goals, Success, Inspirational
“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, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Future, live in the moment, Regrets, present
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
— Corrie ten Boom, The Speaker's Quote Book
Tagged: Future, God, unknown, Fear
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
— Mother Teresa, Success from the Start: Business Participation for Massage Therapists
Tagged: pas, present, Future, live in the moment
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
— Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
Tagged: Future, Knowledge, unknown
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Tagged: Future, present, Effort, Choices
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: Future, dread, worry, Stress
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
— George Harrison, I Wasn't Even Here
Tagged: Future, Past, present, live in the moment
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Future, Fantasies, Escapism
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
— Albert Einstein, Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States
Tagged: Future, Thoughts, Advice
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Future, tomorrow, preparation
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Tagged: Future, Reason, present, worry
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln, The Mind Makeover
Tagged: Future, Predictions, Goals, Dreams
“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
Tagged: Future, Past, Changes
“You can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Future, Change, Success
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Tagged: Future, unknown, Uncertainty, Life
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
— Pope John Paul II, The Thin Books: Daily Strategies & Meditations
Tagged: Future, Today, tomorrow, Now
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
— Alan W. Watts, A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life
Tagged: Future, Past, present, live in the moment
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself
Tagged: Future, live in the moment, Stress, worry
“The past is made out of facts. I guess the future is just hope.”
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
Tagged: Future, Hope, Past, Facts
“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
— Brian Tracy, Realizing Your Potential
Tagged: Future, Survival, coping
“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath.”
— Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Future, live in the moment, Life
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.”
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Tagged: Future, unknown, motivation
“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Tagged: Future, Safe, Dreams
“There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.”
— Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone)
Tagged: Future, Infinity, Past, present
“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”
— Alyson Noël, The Immortals Series 6 Books Collection Set Alyson Noel Everlasting, Night Star
Tagged: fuure, Moving Forward, Past
“My life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.”
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
Tagged: Future, Life, Dreams
“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”
— Robert Walser, The Tanners
Tagged: Future, present, Value, Time
“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle)
Tagged: Future, worry, Stress, Pessimism