A Quote by May Sarton

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

May Sarton

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Backward Chance Compass Forward Gives Holiday Inner Look Oneself Reset

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May Sarton
American - Novelist
May 3, 1912 - July 16, 1995

You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.

Buck Brannaman

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Douglas MacArthur

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

J. I. Packer

When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.

Katie Hoff

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

John Piper

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

James Van Praagh

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Jim Coleman

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

Guillermo del Toro

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Coleman Young

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Michel de Montaigne

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Iggy Pop

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

Swami Vivekananda

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

Marge Piercy

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