Quotes About Progress

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El viaje menos complicado del mejor barco velero, está compuesto de un conjunto de zigzags. Pero si miras la línea de su trayectoria desde una distancia lo suficientemente lejana, notarás que, en general, siempre se ha mantenido en la dirección dominante del destino. Tu acción genuina se explicará por sí misma, y explicará tus otras acciones genuinas.

It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the idolatry.

The essence of this faith is freedom. Its goal is simply to make us good and wise. Its institutions should be as flexible as the needs of humanity in different times and places.

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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall."—Vivekananda

It's very hard to grow because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

Inevitably is an excellent word—inevitably means you're on a train, and the train is going one way, and you're at the front of the train running as fast as you can toward the back of the train, in the opposite direction from where the train is headed. But it doesn't matter, because when the train gets to the station, you get there too. That's inevitably. That's my life.

We each have our path. There are many routes up the mountain, but they all end at the peak.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

What is now in the past was once in the future

In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

a mere five years after the last maharaja had signed away his land, Indians had 'come to take integrated India so much for granted that it requires amental effort today even to imagine that it could be different'.

As that wise Indian, André Béteille, always points out, what we must strive for is reasonable equality of opportunity, not absolute equality of result. That we have plainly not achieved

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

academic or material advancement does not necessarily confer wisdom. As someone rightly quipped, "It may be a smartphone, but it is not a wise phone.

All walls are not barriers. They may be there for a purpose.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.