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“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”

Looks Past Forget Intention Looking Back Backwards Forget The Past

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.”

People Heart Past Father Decision Regret Questioning Looking Back Spontaneous Can't Change Counterproductive

Book:Slammed

Source: Slammed

“It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.”

Self Happens Past Sorrow Disgusting Looking Back Our Past Mixtures Measuring

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.”

People Past Lying Groups Childhood Circles Settling Shakes Globes Looking Back Transparent Embedded Settling Down Weaving

Book:The ballad and the source

Source: The ballad and the source

“I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.”

People Ifs Past Young Generations Youth Lovers Checks Worried Looking Back Looking Forward Something Better Younger Generation Living In The Past Music Lover

Author:Neil Young

“My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.”

People Ifs Doe Seems Past Moving Challenges Talking Support Groups Involved Ill Make Sense Looking Back Campus Support Groups

Book:Following Christopher Creed

Source: Following Christopher Creed

“The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.”

Book Past Forever Wife Mankind All Things Tyrants Resurrection Anticipation Looking Back Incapable Foe No Hope Fruition

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)