Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.
— Henri Nouwen
Jaw-dropping Unknown Future quotations
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today.
They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown.
Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens.
It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.
We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it.
We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am.
I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable.
For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.
I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.
. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.
And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future.
I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I’m a Toyota. You’re a Lamborghini.(Channon)
Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter.
Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Many live in dread of what is coming.
Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.