— Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

— Abrham Hicks

“As you give thought to your future—your future that may be 10 years; your future that may be 5 years; or your future that is 60 days away—you literally begin pre-paving. And then, as you move into those pre-paved moments, and as that future becomes your present, you fine-tune it by saying, This, is what I now want. And all of those thoughts that you have put forth about your future, right down to this moment when you are now intending what action you want to take, will all fit together to bring you precisely that which you now want to live.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don’t always have to know who you are. You don’t have to have the big picture, or know where you’re heading. Sometimes, it’s enough just to know what you’re going to do next.”

- Malcolm X

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

you just want the past to stay in the past

There are times when you just want the past to stay in the past and not interfere with the present because you know there is no future.

— William Chapman

“A great future doesn’t require a great past.”

— Winona Ryder

“I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve f**king thought of it.”

You know, my parents never really spoke of the possibility of my falling in love or getting married or having children. Even as a little girl, they wanted me to think as a future career as a, you know, interior designer, or lawyer or something like that.

~George S. Patton Jr.

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future."

— Unknown

“There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met,

and 195 countries I have not visited.

Yet I am stuck in this insignificant town,

Being pressured into making decisions about my future,

When I barely even know who I am.”

If they aren't working

If they aren't working toward your future together, 

they aren't worth being with.

the Notebook

~Simone de Beauvoir

Change your life today. 

Don’t gamble on the future,

 act now, without delay. 

*Year 2050*

Son: “Dad how did you meet mom?” 
Dad: “Aaah my son… It all started with a Follow back on Twitter”.

I know it's completely irrational to think about us so far ahead in the future.... but then again, love isn't rational.

Never let your past get the best of you in the future.

one door closes

When one door closes, another one opens. But sometimes we look so long at the closed door, that we don't see the one that has been opened up for us.

— OCC

“The best way to recover and move on with your life is to cherish and be grateful for the happy memories … to let go of the pain so you can be free again … and to look ahead with hope to what the future holds.”

my dream bed

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.