My Commonplace Book

“Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life, to live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to the fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational thinking beings, we must use intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.” – Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation

“And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world as the future starts to look more and more like someplace you don’t want to be.” – Nelson DeMille, The Gold Coast