Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.