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“It was another of the things he had left behind, another obvious step in a boy's life that he had decided not to take,…

— Paolo Giordano

“He needed to stop messing up his mind with the future and concentrate on what was at hand.”

— Jan Karon

“He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he…

— Napoleon Hill

“When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the…

— Margaret Craven

“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him,…

— Arabian Nights

“The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.”

— David Baldacci

“...He found himself filled with joy, for now his existence had a meaning. He had a future, because he was part of a world…

— Orson Scott Card

“The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was…

— Teodor Flonta

“He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case, no clear…

— Paul Auster

“I’d learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came—if they came—and to look forward to the…

— Saroo Brierley

“And all at once he noticed something about the people around him. It was as though they knew, somewhere deep down, that the future…

— Daniel Suarez