Quotes About Progress

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Nothing is worse than a brilliant beginning.

After Altamira, all is decadence - we have invented nothing

Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?

apply shingles from the bottom up.

went from hoping things would work out to seeing that they were working out. I am actually doing this, I thought. Maybe I'm not just flying by the seat of my pants. I didn't want to be passive anymore, personally or professionally. In that moment, I came into being as my real and present professional self.

A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —

would be grown up and living their own lives by now, of course, but

as Glamour editor Emma Rosenblum, who recently turned thirty, says: "We're all on different time lines and need to realize that life isn't a race. It's more like one of those huge celebrity walkathons, where everyone's ambling along at her own pace, wearing a really dorky hat and lots of sunblock." By thirty, you should be moving at your own speed.

can tell you with at least 90 percent conviction that we are not doomed to repeat our mistakes—not if we've learned everything we can from them. Forgive your old self, and you can be pretty sure she will forgive you too.

But time, as I came to learn, only moves in one direction, and somewhat reluctantly, I traveled with it:

Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.

If devotees do not progress, it is because they discard their weapons of self-control;

Todo mejorarà en el futuro, si estàs haciendo un esfuerzo espiritual en el presente. Sri Yukteswar a Paramahansa Yogananda

To fly away from problems may seem the easiest solution. But you gain strength only when you wrestle with a strong opponent. One who doesn't have difficulties is one who doesn't grow.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to the inheritance left by our ancestors. If we may make new discoveries and inventions in the phenomenal world, must we declare our bankruptcy in the spiritual domain? Is

my first attempts at lisping phrase and toddling step. These early triumphs, usually forgotten quickly, are yet a natural basis of self-confidence.

It is only when a traveler has reached his goal that he is justified in discarding his maps. During the journey, he takes advantage of any convenient short cut.

If you don't like my words, you are at liberty to leave at any time, Master assured me. I want nothing from you but your own improvement. Stay only if you feel benefited.

Instead of weeping and feeling a sense of loss after the death of those who are dear to you, always send them your love. By doing so you can help the progress of their souls, and they can help you. Never drag them down by unreasonable feelings of selfish attachment and sorrow. Just say to them, "I love you.

Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok.

Sunt victorii care duc la un impas, tot aÅŸa cum sunt înfrângeri care deschid c?i noi.