What does this quote mean '' life is like photography we develop from negatives?

Question

What does this quote mean '' life is like photography we develop from negatives?

Answer 1

It means that we all have negatives, or mistakes, in our life, but we develop into beautiful pictures. We learn from our mistakes and better ourselves from our past experiences. It's another way of saying "Learn from your mistakes."

Answer 2

In film photography, the negatives are the "films" in which you can develop a picture - meaning to say, create the picture.

In life, we develop - as in, mature and grow - from negatives, meaning our mistakes. We learn from what we did wrong and hopefully not make the same mistakes twice.

Answer 3

-When you know better, you (can) do better

and/or

-At a certain point in life, we become the other half of ourselves - our opposites, to a degree (mean people mellow out; quiet people speak up; talkative people learn to listen).

We free ourselves from the things that restrained us.

Answer 4

We all start our lives with few positives:  As babies, we can do nothing for ourselves (are basically negatives at that point) and must learn everything as we age.