“I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.”
“Sometimes we disassociates from the past in order to face the future without fear.”
“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”
“Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.”
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.”