“Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.”

“Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.”

“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

“...that's the true enemy of the future. Ignorance. Indifference. Failure to adapt.”

“Frankl asserts that "the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values." Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for himself or herself the meaning of each situation and the implications the present moment may have for the future.”

“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”