"Don't go backwards - you've already been there."

-- Ray Charles

#Backwards Quotes

“You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.”
“Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.”
“I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.”
“Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.”
“Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing
“No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.”
“In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, â€œDeath happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications
“Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.”

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