Quotes About Progress

Netuno introduz tendências, mas Urano produz mudanças abruptas. [...] O importante é lembrar que [em Urano] é imperativo ver as coisas a partor de um nível diferente ou sofrer as consequências.

Não causa espanto que Marte seja o Deus da guerra e dos conflitos, assim como do progresso e da indústria. Ele destrói, reconstrói e volta a destruir. 'A guerra é o grande acelerador.

but you were moving on: monotonous vindictive

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Life plots elegantly.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

This may feel true for every era, but I believe I am living in a time where disabled people are more visible than ever before. And yet while representation is exciting and important, it is not enough. I want and expect more. We all should expect more. We all deserve more.

Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.

Our entire culture's infrastructure encourages and rewards a static, unchanging nature. You choose one degree, one career, one house, one spouse... You earn prestige by appearing to have it all figured out. The American Dream isn't having it all, it's knowing it all.

often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

I wanted so badly to make the group happen. We'd dreamed our dream in unison, and the thought of us disbanding made me wilt inside. But what's true in the music industry is also the case in life: Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

I now see transitions for what they are: the dawn of a new chapter. As miraculous as beginnings can be, they can also be excruciating.

I'm a person in process, from the me I once was to the me I am now.

I am here—in the present, standing on the shoulders of all who've paved my way, in awe of where my life has led me.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

The path to self-discovery is not a straight line. It's a zigzag. We move in and out of awareness: one step forward, three steps to the left, a baby step back, another leap forward. A lightbulb moment might shine brightly one day, but then flicker the next. It takes work to hold tightly to a certain consciousness, to live in its wisdom. Every day, I have to intentionally maintain an awareness of my value.

A bright smile today pushes towards a better one tomorrow.

Don't hold back when you know you can go forward.

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn.