“You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward”

“There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?”

“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”

“You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them".”

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

“She often told her children that they couldn't change the past and they couldn't jump forward to the future. All they had was today, and they needed to live it in such a way that they wouldn't create just another regretted yesterday. Mourning the past was never productive-she knew this full well.”