When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Copy QuoteYou can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
Copy Quote View & ShareNever let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
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