Quotes about Progress

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

People are looking for a philosophy they can embody or a series of steps they can take to solve their problems.

Characters only take action after they are challenged by an outside force.

He did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.

Every human being is on a transformational journey.