Quotes About Progress

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.