past forward

The past is useful only so far as its lessons can inflect the present and the future.

next day

It’s the next day that matters.

time feeds

The present eats into the future and its digestion is called experience.

face forward

Don’t turn your head—there is nothing behind you that is not dead.

there's no there there

The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that we’ll have a lot to talk about when we get there.

nostalgists

Either they are aghast at the present or afraid of what lies ahead.