Browsing Topic Best Looking Back Quotes

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Look back with joy. Look forward with hope. Be present with peace.

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

When I look back on my life, I see mistakes and heartache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, and pride in myself.

Look back and be grateful, look ahead and be hopeful, look around and be helpful.

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.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don’t even miss them. I’ve outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

I don’t believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that’s the correct decision.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

In the ’80s, you couldn’t walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you’d rush in so you didn’t have to stop.

We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn’t seem to get it back. She didn’t deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn’t see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline… And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier’s heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn’t willing to risk.

Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.

But what’s regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it’s a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn’t know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

College. I didn’t even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

Fashion’s not about looking back. It’s always about looking forward.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?

Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.