A Quote by May Sarton

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

May Sarton

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

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

James Joyce

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

Ambrose Bierce

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

E. Lynn Harris

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

Doug Liman

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.

Robert Breault

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

Connie Zweig

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

Jean Baudrillard

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

James Van Praagh

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

Gary Hamel

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

Jim Coleman

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.

Lewis H. Lapham

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

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

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

John Piper

There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.

Joan D. Chittister

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