{"quotes":[{"text":"...The movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.","author":"Gregory Benford","tags":["movies","the-future"],"id":21967,"author_id":"Gregory+Benford"},{"text":"Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.","author":"Doris Lessing","tags":["hope","plans","the-future"],"id":36210,"author_id":"Doris+Lessing"},{"text":"You can hardly call Deor old.' Arisa wrapped her arms around herself; the breeze was brisk despite the sunlight. 'He didn't live long enough to get old. Why would he do that? I know kings are supposed to care for the realm above all else, and so on, and so on, but that's rot. They're men, just like anyone else. Do you think he really, deliberately, laid down his life?''Yes,' said Weasel. 'At least, I think it's possible.'It was the last answer she'd expected from Weasel-the-cynic.'But why?' Arisa asked.'Not having been there, I can't say for sure.' Weasel stuck his hands in his pockets. 'But I'd guess it was for the future.'Arisa frowned. 'I don't understand.''The One God willing,' said Weasel softly, 'you never will.","author":"Hilari Bell","tags":["arisa","sacrifice","the-future","voluntary-sacrifice","weasel"],"id":44948,"author_id":"Hilari+Bell"},{"text":"You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justif your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you've got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","careers","cheryl-strayed","dear-sugar","the-future","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":47996,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis of how she will see life and treat others in 20 years. So I plan for how amazing she will be now. Instead of living my life I have to live hers. Some may not understand how important it is to be a parent. How present, efficient, selfless, and imaginative you must be. But I do. I only pray that this little face is stronger than I am and more successful for this world and the next. I chase her butterflies. She was created from scratch and presented as a gift from God. She will never roam free, unattended and unloved.","author":"Kimberley Alecia Smith","tags":["a-mothers-love","children","life-lessons","love","motherhood","mothers-and-daughters","parenting","raising-children","the-future","the-love-of-a-mother"],"id":51969,"author_id":"Kimberley+Alecia+Smith"},{"text":"Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beginnings","change","closure","crossroads","different","different-lives","different-paths","endings","ends","evolution","evolve","experiences","forgiveness","freedom","friend","future","goals","grateful","happiness","happy-for-others","healed","healing","inner-peace","journeys","joy","learning","letting-go","life","life-lessons","living","moving-on","no-regrets","paths","peace","plans","playful-banter","positive","realism","reality","rescues","see-clearly","stages-of-growth","staying-positive","stories","the-future","the-past","timing","transition","tsloama","well","well-wishing","wellness"],"id":56657,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.","author":"Michael Crichton","tags":["altered-states","consciousness","the-future"],"id":64136,"author_id":"Michael+Crichton"},{"text":"We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.","author":"László Krasznahorkai","tags":["21st-century","culture","end-times","outlook","pessimism","predictions","the-future","warnings"],"id":67247,"author_id":"L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3+Krasznahorkai"},{"text":"Little is the imagination of the person who believes that the future of another may be determined by his/her past. We are so much more than our minds and our memories! We are in fact transcendent souls. If you determine what is ahead by what you can see when you look back, then you will in fact never behold what actually stands in front of you.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["human-value","inspirational","the-future","the-past","the-soul","the-value-of-a-man","truth","wisdom"],"id":73094,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ahead","chakra","energy","future","life","living","matrix","meditation","michael-bassey-johnson","priority","super-hero","super-power","superintendent","superman","the-future","transcendence","useful","utility","waste"],"id":89495,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}