No matter how hard it may be, we all must move forward on whatever path we take….going backwards sometimes may be fine….but journey forward into life….take that step and strive onward….around that next bend in the river could be the most beautiful sight you’ve ever seen….a beautiful waterfall…. or wildlife you’ve never seen before….maybe even the perfect campsite….continue forward in life….since life is an adventure. We need to know where we’ve come from to know where we’re going….but we need to keep going no matter where we’ve come from.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up. - Tom Hanks
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. - Kenny Loggins
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. - Mikhail Bakunin
A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don’t have that outlet. - Terrell Owens
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. - Victor Kiam
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Tzu
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. – Brian Tracy
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. - Franklin Roosevelt
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. - Khalil Gibran
As I’ve noted here before:
Life is a journey, not the destination. – Unknown
There are many who walk through the woods like blind men. – Grey Owl, Tolerance
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step and trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a woods, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost (American poet), The Road Not Taken
You can always tell a white man from an Indian…The Indian walks like a fox, in a straight line, one foot in front of the other; a white man walks with his feet pointing in opposite directions, like he wasn’t sure which way to go…. – from “Of Mice and Men, White Pine, and Mobility”, in Grey Owl and Me: Stories from the Trail and Beyond by Hap Wilson….as told to Hap by a Native elder.
Then again one of the best of advice comes from paddling:
When in doubt, keep the open end up, and the pointed end forward. – Signature from online canoeing forum.
Or this from Facebook:
Paddles up until later then….moving forward as much as possible….
