A Quote by John Dalberg-Acton
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.
This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?
For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I'll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn't have made them. That's why I don't like re-takes.
Build your life brick upon brick,
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.
You go back and look at the situations from both angles, and that's where the progress and the growth came, by being able to look at it from the other side. Moving forward, knowing to do the right thing was learning from my mistakes of the past. Sometimes it's just, don't do that.
I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.
The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.
Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.
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