Looking

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Many of us occasionally find ourselves living too much in the past. The poet Longfellow wrote:

“Look not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is the thing. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and a manly heart.”

The Stoic philosopher Seneca noted: “We can only say he is anxious about the future to whom the present is unprofitable.”