This is to me the most impressive quotes in the entire HEROES series of Session 1, Episode 18 - Parasite.

The dialogues between Nathen Petrelli and Linderman in the kitchen while he’s cooking of a pot pie.

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[linderman]
you see …
I think, there comes a time, when a man has to ask himself,  whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning.

[nathan]
I’d like to have both.

[linderman]
Can’t be done …
Two very different paths.

[linderman]
I mean, to be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present,
No thought of what’s gone before and no though of what lies ahead …

A life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.