Quotes About Progress

What seems devastating at the time can turn out to be a new beginning, a different chapter.

there is no such thing as permanence or solidity—that every thing and every being in this world is undergoing constant change.

We forget that it's only a matter of time before there is change—and, once again, a shift in perspective.

the act of imagining how an ideal self might be is the start of its manifestation.

We're all works in progress. It takes courage to be open about our flaws, but that's what makes us authentic.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

been raised rather successfully

One world moved on, the next came to life around you, and before you knew it, things that had been normal and accepted were nothing more than late-night reruns and memories to be shared over a beer.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Life is about to change if only because it must.

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.

But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.

No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

You said yourself, people change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.

the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity tat it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley

But perhaps it's a delusion for each generation to think that they know better than their parents. If this were true, than parental wisdom would increase with time like the processing power of computer chips, refining over generations, and we'd how be living in some utopia of openness and understanding. (pag.288)

It wasn't much of a plan, and already there had been mistakes.