“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.”

“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”

“Dear past: Thank you for all lessons. Dear future: I’m ready.”

“Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.”

“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”

“You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel”

“Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.”

“The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.”

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”

“It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”