„But I am stuck deeply in the past, and I can't see the future. What's worse, I rarely see the "now" (...).“
— 'Fatal fear' excerpt
... and...
„I cannot turn back the clock to fix the mistakes I've once made. But I can let them rest in peace, and move on – perhaps towards something better (and certainly towards more peace of my own).“
— 'Fatal fear' excerpt
I'm not exactly sure who said it in the first place, but the one I've heard it from was Teyla Emmagan (Rachel Luttrell is such a sweet actress, and I mean her mad acting skillz). A saying that tells of the aforementioned pitfalls and how to avoid them:
„Draw from your past, but don't let your past draw from you.“
And I think that's how it's said best.
There's also this, um,
other saying I like, since we're there: "How do you breathe with your head so far up your ass?" :D