Quotes About Progress

Iš ties?, darbas padeda žmogui susitaikyti su b?gan?iu laiku, net kai jis slenka tuš?iai.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. Bu it is not quite so slow as a pushcart.

The future is forever a projection of the present

Slowly slowly O mind... Everything in own pace happens, Gardner may water a hundred buckets... Fruit arrives only in its season.

Look not left nor right. Look only at your own footsteps.

Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen Aphorism N. 5

Things change, Briony. You can't stop them, and you'll drive yourself crazy if you try.

How quickly children grow! They are infants -- you look away a minute and in that time they have left their babyhood behind.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made.

Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius, it is unlikely that we will save our planet. A purely rational education will not suffice.

The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The

FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH centuries were decisive for all the people of God. It was a particularly crucial period for the Christian West, which had not only succeeded in catching up with the other cultures of the Oikumene but was about to overtake them.

as the philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."24

The emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart

There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.

philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.

we are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.

We have to move forward, sweetheart. And we can't do that if we hold on to what was.

But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one's ultimate destination.

We must all run through a storm or two before we reach our destinations.

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.