“If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.”

“It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now have one without the other”

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

“Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.”

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”