Quotes About Progress

Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace..

Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Nature is telling us: Change!

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.

It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

When I had all the answers the questions changed

But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyses you is fear of making a mistake. If you have made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time.

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

No one can go back, but everyone ca go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises,all you have to say to yourself is:I am going to think this day as the first day of my life.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

Anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.

Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.

The completion is always more difficult that the beginning

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.