I was surprised to learn that hope is quite different from wishing or fantasizing. Hope leads to future success in a way that wishful thinking does no...

He fled, not from his past, but to escape his future. It took him twelve years to learn you cannot escape either of them.

All my life I've lived with a future, which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

And it's not the future their eyes see,
But history. It stretches
Like a dry road uphill before them.
They climb it.

Never take future advice from people who know nothing about the future.