“We can't change the past, Soldier. We can only be grateful for the life of a new day, and move on.”

“Deal with each situation as best as you can. Life is only a series of events. You're here one day and you're there the next. We can't change the past, but we can continue to live positive for the future.”

“But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”

“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”

“We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.”

“That's life, MacKenzie. We can't go back, only forward. And we can't afford to waste the past. The best we can do is reframe it. We only have so many years on this earth. They all count.”