No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
Source: My Psalm; In A Treasury of Great American Quotations, ed. by Charles Hurd, 1964.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier, (Dec 17 1807-1892), US poet, essayist; He was a popular rural poet, e.g., Barbara Frietchie, who devoted his life to social causes and reform.