Quotes About Progress

One day at a time. One foot in front of the other. All for one.

Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles." "You think?" "All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?" "For a while," said Rosie. "A while's a long time," said Penn.

All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.

So Grumwald felt his way was, if not firmly paved, at least densely pebbled, and that was as good a start as one could wish for.

Mistake good because you learn, you fix.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles.

If you look closer, if you go slowly, there can be story even without progress or plot, life in small change, like Dante and Beatrice, like fish swimming hard against the current just to stay where they are. They're not getting anywhere, neither Dante nor the fish, but that doesn't mean there isn't effort, growth, triumph, and beautiful poetry. Trust me, stasis is challenging. And challenge is story.

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

What is worth doing is worth merely beginning. —Mackapee's Principles for Community

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life. Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.

Our capacity to disregard and discount viscerally painful experiences is so ingrained that we have come to believe that "moving forward" means not allowing ourselves to be moved at all.

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.

Only a fool would wish to go back who he was.

Only a fool would wish to go back to who he was.

This life is a process of learning.