Quotes About Progress

What makes life worth living is being actively engaged in becoming the finest, most delicious human being you can possibly be in this lifetime.

you must become more interested in what's possible from here on than you are in rectifying the past, and more invested in how you might midwife this transition harmoniously than in getting what you want in the short term.

Katherine Woodward Thomas

History is like an endless waltz, it never ends, it keeps going on and on.

You have to do something after a while, don't you?

You should not dwell upon yesterday's loss, but rather seek the morrow's gain.

I can't do it!' I wailed, half in jest. 'You are doing it.' he replied.

Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.

Sometimes you had to wait a little while for the good times to kick in. But when they did, you realized every moment and experience that came before was necessary…necessary to bring you there.

Anthropos. That's a Greek word. It means to become the best human you can be.

So much had happened since then. So many obstacles had been

Many people are just waking to the reality that unlimited expansion, what we call progress, is not possible in this world, and maybe looking to monks (who seek to live within limitations) as well as rural Dakotans (whose limitations are forced upon them by isolation and a harsh climate) can teach us how to live more realistically. These unlikely people might also help us overcome the pathological fear of death and the inability to deal with sickness and old age that plague American society.

Time only goes in that one direction.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I'm a child of the '60s. I went to medical school as a vehicle for social change.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I would argue that without social media and the internet, the Catalan independence movement could not possibly have progressed so far in such a short space of time, and even with the same chain of political events, levels of pro-independence activism and voter support would have been much lower at this stage.

One foot in front of the other. This is how a person walks... A trail unfolding just ahead of each footstep... resilient underfoot.

She used to think there would be a greater sense of forward movement in her life, but now it seemed like where a person ended up was going to turn out to have everything to do with where she started.

History is boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It's not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It's what comes before history that isn't boring.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. —Isaac Asimov Writer