Quotes About Progress

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially true of sexual orientation. It is the market that rewards people who put aside their biases and seek gains through trade. This is why states devoted to racialist and hateful policies always resort to violence in control of the marketplace.

The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect is inspiring people to claim their freedom and use it to make their lives better. By comparison to this activity, the disgusting behavior of nation states appears like a ridiculous anachronism that will be steamrolled by the forces of history.

The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.

The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of universal dignity, the conviction that we can work together in mutual advantage, the market economy as a means of peace and prosperity, and, above all else, the beauty and magnificence of the idea of liberty itself.

Social and political change is an effect — it comes only after we change ourselves.

Difficult situations breed astonishing results.

We can only grow if we dare to do what we not dare to do

At the end, you find the beginning.

You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.

What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.

Five Years from Now I Will Be…

There's no point rehashing how we all got here. What's done is done.

It was time to let go.

Cuando ambos trabajaban juntos, tomando el relevo e impulsando al otro, las cosas iban bien. Tal vez nunca viera una gran señal de que él era el indicado. Tal vez no hubiera más que un montón de pequeñas señales, y lo único que tuviera que hacer fuera decidirse de una vez por todas a dar el salto.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

We are never defeated, not even when all the evidence appears to the contrary. If you are still breathing, there is always tomorrow, and it can always be new. You don't have to be who you were.

You don't have to be who you first were. That early version of yourself, that season you were in, even the phase you are currently experiencing—it is all good or purposeful or at least useful and created a fuller, nuanced you and contributed to your life's meaning, but you are not stuck in a category just because you were once branded that way. Just because something was does not mean it will always be.

Be patient - let yourself unfurl one delicate leaf at a time.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

Every no takes you one step closer to a yes!

Step into the person you want to become.

Success = a series of small, consistent, loving steps.