#retro

Righteousness is easy in retrospect. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#retrospect #righteousness

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#appears #good #good action #inevitable #mark

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#appears #good #good action #inevitable #mark

I don't want to be a reality retro star. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#reality #retro #star #want

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#life-lessons #retrospect #change

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#change #retrospect #young-adult #change

I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life-philosophy #life_universe_everything #philisophical #philisophical-life #philosphy

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#regret #retrospect #inspirational

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments since seemed to obey, and promised to continue obeying, their own set of stochastic, undisclosed, and undiscoverable laws. Where I was fully aware of the pitfalls and folly of a finely-tuned narcissism but still the known universe seemed to bend and bend inexorably inward and towards me where it awaited my next move, supremely ready to react accordingly. And how I knew that decisions I would soon make or defer would have near-Sophoclean import and yet nonetheless it all seemed oddly irrelevant. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#future #life #past #retrospective #uncertainly

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#i #past #retrospect