A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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'Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures...
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.
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A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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I don’t have anything, we only are, me, my experience and my way. I don’t make anything, single I go forwards, always forwards... Would you like to travel with me?
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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