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Quotes About Transition

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
~ Hal Borland
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
~ Kathleen Norris
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
~ Gail Sheehy
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.
~ James Russell Lowell
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
~ Anonymous
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
~ Carl T. Rowan
Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
~ Marcus Aurelius
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
~ Charles F. Kettering
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
~ Rollo May
When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.
~ Nora Ephron
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
~ Marcus Aurelius
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
~ Faith Baldwin
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
~ George Sand
I am not now That which I have been.
~ Lord Byron
The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
~ Mason Cooley
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.
~ Bible
Circumstances alter cases.
~ Thomas Haliburton
Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.
~ Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
~ Arnold Toynbee
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
~ Samuel Johnson