“I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.” WayTurnsStruggleProgressStandingOkayOvercomingObstaclesDespiteMy WayAllowing Author:Josh McDermitt
“Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all."” RealizingProgressOkayUnhappyBuddhistNever QuitGlamourUtopia Author:Momus
“Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.” WayKidsProgressDrawsOkayTwentiesDrawingGradesIllustrationSixth Grade Author:Demetri Martin
“I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?” ThinkingStillsWantedProgressImpossibleChangedDependsSafeMouthsOkayDrySpinningOld Life Book:Lock and Key Source: Lock and Key