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

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

Persevere towards those objectives which are lighted for us by all the wisdom and inspiration of the past.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

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

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.