Career-counseling Quote by Sheryl Sandberg

“Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does "going back" 4 years really…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“As with every other time, she wished they could go back and undo the things they’d said years earlier; try and do things differently,…

— Victoria Jenkins

“Certainly she no longer thinks of the future, because every day the future proves itself to be a duplicate of the present. So instead…

— David R. Gillham

“You can’t get back the time in the past. You can’t change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.”

— J.B. McGee

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“Move forward, not backward.” That was a favorite quote from a book she’d read. Just another way of saying there was no sense dwelling…

— Yvonne Navarro

“In college, 29 had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“A long-standing commitment to living in the present—because screw the past. She was a done deal. And screw the future cuz she was a…

— River Jaymes

“But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties,…

— Steven Martin

“Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.”

— Lev Grossman

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien