Quotes About Progress

We can decide to remain in our isolated bunkers, becoming more and more obsessed with looking inward instead of outward, or we can decide to be great together. We can decide to stagnate, or we can decide to grow. We can decide to settle for the status quo, or we can decide to reach for the stars. "Choose.

Pero tú tienes una ventaja —susurró—. Ahora eres un poquito humano.

A veces la ira puede ser algo bueno. Hace que sigas adelante cuando no queda nada más.

Bad Things Happen… But Then Good Things Happen

Bridges are built over thin air. Someone must lay the first plank, the first brick, take the risk.

Paperwork is a creation of the modern world. Do you think they had paperwork four hundred years ago - no, all they had was love & witnesses.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.—Nimra, Angel of New Orleans

I think at a certain point, a person must take responsibility for being their own person. To look forever backward..." She thought of the pile of returned letters her mother hoarded in a trunk, letters Camio hadn't even bothered to open. "It's stagnation and obsession.

Just because we grow doesn't mean we forget our old selves. We are all created of many skins.

But on this night, Bowen Adrian Knight and Kaleb Krychek had, together, laid the first brick.

Left Foot, Right In

Nalo Hopkinson

On ACTION: "Stop talking;start DO-ing.

It was a small thing, perhaps, but great changes begin with small things.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

I'm cool enough to have moved from iceberg lettuce to romaine. I wasn't cool enough for field greens, which I kind of think might be weeds that some chef somewhere is having a huge belly laugh over—sort of like the Emperor's new clothes.

such as those

I will not get very far with this attitude.

A clock only turns one direction

Maybe part of passing that test was a marker for where I've been, but it feels more like a pointer for something I'll never reach

A move is a way of lightening your load and starting things new.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Mi nana diría que valdrá la pena cuando llegues a la cima. Y yo te diría que sigas escalando, pero que no esperes llegar a la cima mañana. No intentes ser perfecta para otra gente.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.