Quotes About Progress

Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

One withers, another grows.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone.

This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon.

You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well. When they mailed the letter, they wrote a name, a street, a city, a country and they melted wax and sealed the envelope with a signet ring. Sarah had never known a world like that. Speed now trumped the quality of words. A fast send was more important.

When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow of time completely …

God -starts- things,' he [the Lord] said. 'Man stops them.

There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.

But all endings are also beginnings.

No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person that I'm trying to become.

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

there is no such thing as "too late" in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-twp. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth.

Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as "too late" in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.

The teaching goes on