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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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    • #becoming
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    • #brave
    • #waiting
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Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    • #hope
    • #mistakes
  • 4 months ago
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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky

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Where do I see myself in ten years?.. That’s a good question. Okay, uh well I guess more than anything… You know what I’d like? I’d like the happiness I have right now. Although I guess what are the chances of that?.. I mean, you go through your life and you are probably going to be able to look back and pinpoint like two or three times that you were genuinely, actually happy and then, of course in those moments you wouldn’t have even appreciated it anyways, because who does, right? So, where do I see myself in ten years? Ummmm I guess what I would like is uh.. is to be right here. Right now, in this moment and not ‘cause I’m afraid of uncertainly, because I’m not, it’s just, you know, I was taught when you have something good, what you are suppose to do is that you hang on to it, you know, you hang on to it with both hands. and if somebody tries to take that from you, what you should do is, you should make sure that they prie it from your cold dead fingers.
Adam Brody, The O.C.
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    • #holding on
    • #happiness
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  • 9 months ago
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The O.C.

  • Peter Gallagher: Have you given any thought at all to your future? Dude, I'm on your side. C'mon, help me out here. This—
  • Ben McKenzie: Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be a hundred. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025. Which means people are going to have to stay in their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.
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    • #tv
    • #graduation
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You know we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. Back then I thought, well, there’ll be other days. I didn’t realize that that was the only day.
Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams (via filmquotes)

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    • #carpe diem
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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
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May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
unknown
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[on being 17]…have no fear these are nowhere near the best years of your life.
Brad Paisley
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    • #youth
    • #high school
  • 3 years ago
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