People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change. For worse.And for better.It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.

I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward,” he says.

The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.

The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.

Impossible? Utopic? Sure! But for how long? Can any human endeavor be eternally impossible or utopic ? A time factor should be integrated to every affirmation of utopia, or else the people affirming that would only be affirming that they are not the ones who can make it happen.

I am not sure I can.""Become sure," said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.

Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.

It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

If your body is telling you to slow down, listen to it. If your body is saying you should keep going... then keep going.