Fantasies… who needs fantasies? I have memories.

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

They say to never look back.But sometimes I do. It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.

I’ve learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can’t see past it. Sometimes we can’t even see God because of it. When...

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

What if I can’t turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can...

I understand true life doesn’t happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Taking time to look back, is a foundation on course to build a stable future.

Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can’t TOUCH those feelings. Its like they belonged to someone else. Someone you don’t even...

I don’t know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

It’s funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought mattered. No more fragments of glass, pieces of a broken mirror you can’t...

Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However…I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

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.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in...

VIEW FROM A HILLI am not yet quite over it.I am lying down on top of it.Surveying behind me a wastelandOf dried-up promise.While the lights below twinkleWith dull mocking uncertainty.There isn’t much left to look...

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...

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going....

I’ve never looked forward before. I’ve always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I’ve never once...

It isn’t as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we’ve done.

We made love like there was no tomorrow. Looking back, we should have made love like there was no yesterday.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

I know I’ll miss her every single day, but the memories she left won’t haunt me anymore. I’ll remember the girl who never wore shoes, and our blood promise to always be friends. I’ll remember...

The trouble with ‘if only’ is that it doesn’t change anything. It keeps the person facing the wrong way – backward instead of forward. It wastes time. In the end, if you let it become...

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...

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

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