Your now is not your forever.

The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

Is this reaction about the present moment? Or is it about the past? I can't change the past. But by changing my response to its leftovers, I can change the present.

You can never plan the future by the past.

One couldn’t fix the past, only the present.

a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

Your past does not equal your future

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

This gave me a personal lesson not to just make lamentations based on present events because things change with time

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.