We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Debt can rob you of your future because you are using the money you earn today to pay off things from the past.

When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

Our past is but a former now, our future a potential one.

Rather than putting your Future Self in deeper debt, make your Future Self wealthier. Continually position your Future Self for freedom of time, money, relationships, and overall sense of purpose.

To pay homeage to our past is the only gesture that also includes the future.

One faces the future with one's past.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.'
To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Sadly, people today not only spend the time they have, they also spend away their futures. To accrue debt is to sell away our future time.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

We may be the first generation that instead of sacrificing for our kids, we’re sacrificing their future with an inheritance of debt.

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.