Quotes about Progress

Potential has a shelf life.

But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishments. I focus on taking the cap off the toothpaste, getting the brush up to my mouth. I have difficulty lifting my arm to do even that. I feel I am without worth, that nothing I can do is of any value, least of all to myself.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.

It is not only the body that travels, Adam One used to say, it is also the Soul. And the end of one journey is the beginning of another.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!