“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.”

“Life is a series of random collisions.”

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”

“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.”

“I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.”