You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Lust for the future, treasure the past.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.