“Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.”
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”
“We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.”
“The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.”
“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
“Nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust and ambition look ahead.”