Quotes About Transition

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Other times, other customs.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

This, too, shall pass.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Death is a door life opens.

Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse.

Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.

Time bears away all things.

Now is the Winter of our discontent.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

With renunciation life begins.

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I have been doing.

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.