“What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.”

“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”

“If you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”

“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”

“We observe things in the present and then, okay, we're assuming that that's always happened in the past, and we're going to figure out how this happened. You see? There is a difference between what you observed and what happened in the past.”

“It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.”

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”