“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”

“There are no limitations to excuses. It may give a moment relieve. But, anything outside that is the long-lasting sufferings of what was neglected to underscore before the excuses. So, we make excuses to justify our failures. Because, failure and success are the future life of a doer.”

“It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

“Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.”

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

“We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.”

“Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.”

“Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.”

“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to
release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the
clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our
spirit.”

“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.”