Quotes About Progress

This was excellent news. It had only been a few weeks since her attack so I hoped there would still be scars.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Peter) Best to remember that life is lived not just in phases but also in layers.

What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness to proceed stupidly.

Moving on from something have nothing to do with the time that it takes but the progress that you have to make.

Not all meetings grow prosperous idea.

The stress in your journey depends on how you walk.

Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.

The way we think about our past informs what we think is possible today.

The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times when things were much more violent... But we don't have to act that way now. We can think and imagine ourselves differently once we understand what we 've based our ideas on.

It's not a fucking crisis anymore. This is the new reality.

It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible.

A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.

If the world didn't need shaking up, why would this power have come alive now?

All things, when measured in spans of years, seem simple. But human lives do not occur in years but slowly, day by day. A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.

It's the younger generation who'll have to live in the world you're building,

Every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.

You can't get there from here.

We should remember this. Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.

It's not what I've done, Allie thinks to herself, it's what I'm going to do. And the voice says: It's what Eve's going to do.

Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.

I'm not who I was.

We travel from birth to death, from past to future, and each second which ticks by is gone forever.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.