Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.
When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser,...
In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize...
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.
You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?
when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists
Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead...
The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her
Sometimes I really can't express how much I feel, but I can tell for a fact that some past years have been a victorious rollercoaster ride with God in it. Some days colourful, some days black and whit...
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. Tha...
Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.
Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.
The answers hardly seemed of consequence. Not much did. I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.
The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully
Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.
Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carrie...
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