"Hope cannot exist in the past. When hope is directed toward the past it becomes despair. Hope cannot exist in anything that we have already obtained. ... Hope can only exist in the future. Living in the past is a graveyard for hope. Existentialism -- living for the now -- in the end will lead us to the same dead end -- a hopeless existence. When you refuse to let go of the past, you lose all hope. When you walk backwards into the future, you cannot see anything to hope for. This is one reason why a person who is embittered ultimately cannot be encouraged into a new frame of thinking. Until he is willing to let go of the past, he is not ready to take hold of the future."
Erwin McManus, Uprising.
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