Quotes About Transition

To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end.

That'll be one gold coin per passenger," he said. "Living gods, hand the coin directly to me. Dead mortals, have a relative slip it under your tongue.

I got so used to saying good-bye that when he disappeared for real I didn't notice.

I know how it feels to have a comfortable world suddenly turn against you,' I replied. 'My husband died, and poverty made my sorrow ten times

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

Daffodils, first sign of spring. It's how you know everything is about to change.

Recalling our band of firebrands to him fills me with longing. Those girls are married now, most of them, and the better part have moved away. But then, it was never the same with us, after.

Connie? We are ready for you." It was Professor Silva. Connie sat up. For a split second she faced the certainty that the exam had gone horribly, she had failed, she would have to leave school. But then Connie saw Janine's kind face, framed with ruddy tangles of hair, break into a delighted grin. She threaded an arm around Connie's waist and whispered, "We're celebrating at Abner's after this!" And she knew that it was really about to be over.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

if we have had enough of something, rightly or wrongly, all we have to do is to busy ourselves with something else; there is no reason why we should speak disparagingly of it; he who has studied Aristotle too much can "go and play the violin.

I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it—to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes?

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times — and this is the worst of all — before we have new ones.

No man lived a more strong and beautiful life than did John Wesley, and his view of death was that whenever it came he would be found at his duty; and the transition from that duty to heaven's service would be a natural one. Instead of death, let the Lord be expected; and the true attitude of life will be that of quiet pursuit of duty and constant readiness to greet Him.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

The year 1848 was the turning point at which modern history failed to turn.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

Is all one generation can do to set the stage for the comic, sad story of the next?