#forward

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#growing-up #growth #life #moving-forward #moving-on

Did I ever tell you that my mother and father started out as pen pals? They wrote these long, unabashedly affectionate love letters to one another, peppered with clichés and pie-in-the-sky proclamations of eternal devotion. Despite my father’s eventual dishonesty and unfaithfulness, I have to believe he meant every word he wrote at that time, and it was admittedly romantic, uncovering my parents’ yellowed letters, all soft, crumbling corners and black ink stains, one rainy afternoon. Because how can anyone scrawl lies, really, in their own handwriting, the evidence of your own betrayal right in front of you? I sat cross-legged on the floor, holding my breath as I unfolded each letter, fragile and expectant, like a little girl opening her presents on Christmas morning. I sat there and soaked up my parents’ love for each other, and then I wondered where all those feelings had escaped to. I wondered where love went when it was lost—did it travel far, across miles and oceans and forests and deserts, or did it linger somewhere nearby, just waiting for a chance to be summoned again? Wherever it was, I could only hope it had ended up settling somewhere quieter, safer. ↗

— Marla Miniano

#life #marla-miniano #reflections #life

We will go forward... we will never go back. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#forward #go #never #will

There is no standing still because time is moving forward. ↗

— Greg Lake

#forward #moving #moving forward #standing #still

Unless you go forward then you are going back. ↗

— Greg Lake

#forward #go #going #then #unless

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#economic #forward #hand #internationalism #isolationism

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#always #back #backward #cannot #course

The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team. ↗

— David Leslie

#effort #enthusiastic #everyone #forward #getting

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#between #big #body #completely #dedicate

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward. ↗

— David Livingstone

#forward #go #i #provided #will