Quotes About Progress

There are so many tiny revolutions in a life, a million ways we have to circle around ourselves to grow and change and be okay.

I wasn't even thinking, What have I gotten myself into? I was thinking only of moving myself forward. My mind was a crystal vase that contained only that one desire. My body was its opposite: a bag of broken glass. Every time I moved, it hurt. I counted my steps to take my mind off the pain, silently ticking the numbers off in my head to one hundred before starting over again. The blocks of numbers made the walk slightly more bearable, as if I only had to go to the end of each one.

This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it take a turn you didn't expect.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. When

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell

But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

These things are your becoming.

If it is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.

This is not how your story ends. It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect.

We are here to build the house.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on.

Each day on the trail was the only possible preparation for the one that followed.

Your question to me is about God, but boiled down to its essentials, it's not so different than most of the questions people ask me to answer. It says: This failed me and I want to do better next time . My answer will not be so different either: To do better you're going to have to try .

It turns out you have to be an apprentice in this world.

Testing yourself means relinquishing the things you believe have so far kept you safe or comfortable

She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

When I was done writing it, I understood that things happened just as they were meant to. That I couldn't have written my book before I did. I simply wasn't capable of doing so, either as a writer or a person. To get to the point I had to get to to write my first book, I had to do everything I did in my twenties.

all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way.

What I meant when I said that Hillary Clinton had made the world ready for Hillary Clinton is that I recognized her as a woman who had whacked the weeds to blaze her own trail, who had always stood up again after she was told to sit down, who had persisted, and persisted, and persisted, nevertheless. What I meant is that a woman like this was finally going to win. Someday she will.

You can learn along the way.

You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.

For some of you, those things have already happened.