“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

“You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past”

“Hanging on to the anguish, hurt, and pain of the past negates one’s movement into the future. Accept the torment you suffered as a lesson, then advance.”

“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”

“Without a past you can't have a future.”

“You can only picture the future based on what you know about the past. If history dies the future can only be hideous.”

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

“You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.”

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”