“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.”

“Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

“that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened… and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing… to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we’re afraid”

“The past is made out of facts… I guess the future is just hope.”

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

“Don’t live in the past. Enjoy the present moment and think of future. And happiness will follow you.”

“Your past, including your failures, simply offers feedback that makes you wiser and stronger than before.”

“… And, after all, an obsolete list. She was in love now, set for the eternal romance that was to be the synthesis of all romance, yet sad for these man and these moonlights and for the ‘thrills’ she had had – and the kisses. The past – her past, oh, what a joy! She had been exuberantly happy.”

“To abandon the past is to throw away all of the elements that will build my future. And that creates a landfill I can’t afford to fill.”

“You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.”

“Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”

“Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.”

“I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.”

“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.”