Quotes About Progress

Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

What does she fear in idleness?

s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.

I vow to become the change that might have been.

Things pass. Even big things. And when they're far behind us, they don't look as big anymore.

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.

How do you fill it?' Connor asks. 'How do you fill the … the space?' And to Cam's own amazement, he has an answer. 'Bit by bit,' he says, 'and not alone.

The very idea of schooling used to be about learning so that we could improve our lives and the world. But a perfect world needs no improvement. Like most everything else we do, grade school through the highest of universities, is just a way to keep us busy.

Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of "bad" they were now called "innovative" and "forward-thinking.

Can we just get on with this already?(7).

The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one. It was an endless tug-of-war with powerful players pulling—not just against you, but in every direction—so that whatever you did, even if you made progress against all those vectors, at some point you were bound to go sideways.

How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.

You may not be first, you may not be last, but you will cross the finish line.

Mountains are created by upheaval. I'm sure it doesn't look pretty at the time.

And, like the Thunderhead, we love humanity. But we know not to coddle it. Humanity must accept the consequences of its own actions. We cannot - should not - protect it from itself.

one cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

There are no miracles here, just momentum.

One can never truly master the art of driving, because no journey is ever exactly the same," Scythe Curie told her. "But once you've gained proficiency, it can be rewarding—freeing, even.

Everything in life is a lesson, Kelton. Learn from it. Better yourself. Become stronger.

karena tanda pertama adanya peradaban selalu saja sampah. [P. 73]

Are you heading out or heading home?" asked the woman sitting beside him in 15A. There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

If the bar can't be lowered," Goddard said slowly, "then the floor must be raised.

One can never truly master the art of driving, because no journey is ever exactly the same.