The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.
Elizabeth von ArnimWhat you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.
What you write today, will be echoed in the future.
Tags: past future write listen echo
Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
Hermann HesseTags: past future present happiness history
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.
Isaac AsimovTo envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory
Jeremy AldanaTags: life past future present journey
Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you
Jeremy AldanaWhen you make a choice, you change the future.
Deepak ChopraTags: wisdom life future choice mind genius choosing
It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.
Sarah DessenWhat is the future going to be like, then?'
'Hey, it's gonna be a gas,' Scape assured me. 'If you're into machines and stuff - like I am - you'd go for it. People are gonna have all kinds of shit. Do whatever they want with it. That's why it didn't faze me when ol' Bendray first told me about wanting to blow up the world. Hey - in the Future, everybody will want to!
Tags: future technology nuclear-weapons
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?
Jennifer EganTags: future music friendships tattoos 80s
« first previous
Page 30 of 88.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.