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Quotes About Progress

Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means.
~ Joy Harjo
Nothing ever stays the same, whether it be poems or humans.
~ Joy Harjo
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just just the next just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next maybe all there is is is just is just the next thing Roslyn's words stuck in her head & she could not stop repeating them Maybe all there is is just the next thing like a Hindu mantra & she was a yogin murmuring her secret prayer Maybe all there is just the next thing She thought, That's a comfort!
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
one kept me informed on Dad's progress. Or lack of progress. Or how serious it all was—is. You certainly didn't, darling." Yet, was this true? Vaguely I seemed to know that my father was not doing well for some time. Driving on our country roads you see the carcasses of animals—raccoons, deer—lying at the roadside, killed
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
No hagas caso a tu abuela, cariño. Ella es de los tiempos del cine mudo y nosotras, del sonoro.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Truth must evolve'—how very convenient for liars.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.
~ Joyce Meyer
There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.
~ Joyce Meyer
No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.
~ Joyce Meyer
If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.
~ Joyce Meyer
I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.
~ Joyce Meyer
Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.
~ Joyce Meyer
Today is a brand new beginning for me!
~ Joyce Meyer
I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.
~ Joyce Meyer
Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.
~ Joyce Meyer
Habakkuk 3:19 says that the way we develop hind's feet (a hind is an animal that can climb mountains swiftly) is "to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon" the "high places [of trouble, suffering or responsibility]!" The way God helps us make spiritual progress is by being with us to strengthen and encourage us to "keep on keeping on" in rough times. It's easy to quit; it takes faith to go through.
~ Joyce Meyer
One great reason for hope is this: you are not a failure just because you have failed at certain things.
~ Joyce Meyer
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." —Saint Francis of Assisi
~ Joyce Meyer