Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

The healthy child has to have something to look forward to.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.

The present is great with the future.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.