Quotes About Progress

The future flew past in a flash of grim. The clock was ticking, and I didn't like that clock.

Si caminamos lo suficiente, alguna vez llegaremos a alguna parte.

The future is fixed. The past ever-changing

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose

Sometimes, he said, the important things take time, sometimes they don't just happen all at once, sometimes answers come out of time and struggle, and learning. sometimes you just have to try again in a different way.

We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy of floating, we flex our muscles and learn to kick, propelling ourselves into deeper waters where we can't see the bottom or touch the side. There, in the deep, we stroke. Then, surprising ourselves, saving ourselves, we swim.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Wounds. Broken places. Possibility. Change. Steps toward holiness. Imperfect progress. The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies. Grace. Love. Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before. And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.

Elmúlt az egész életünk, PaweÅ', és a világ semmivel se lett jobb.

Then way I think of it is this: when you've done all the things worth doing, you're forced to start on the things that aren't.

Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

Being about spiritual growth, this book is inevitably about the other side of the same coin: the impediments to spiritual growth. Ultimately there is only the one impediment, and that is laziness. If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments will be overcome. If we do not overcome laziness, none of the others will be hurdled.

But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact

But the biggest problem of map-making is not that we have to start from scratch, but that if our maps are to be accurate we have to continually revise them.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don't.

What they once perceived as problems they now perceive as opportunities.

And it is through our love for others that we assist others to elevate themselves. Love, the extension of the self, is the very act of evolution. It is evolution in progress. The evolutionary force, present in all of life, manifests itself in mankind as human love. Among humanity love is the miraculous force that defies the natural law of entropy.

In a very real sense, we begin with science. We begin by replacing the religion of our parents with the religion of science. We must rebel against and reject the religion of our parents, for inevitably their world view will be narrower than that of which we are capable if we take full advantage of our personal experience, including our adult experience and the experience of an additional generation of human history. There is no such thing as a good hand-me-down religion.

process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning.

It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.