“Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.”

“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”

“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”

“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”

“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”

“Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.”

“Now think deeply.
What have you done with your life over the past year?
How do you feel inside?”

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”