Quotes About Transition

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

In essence, the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

Life keeps moving, and to try to stay still is like trying to hold grains of sand in your hand.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.

The world is changing. I'm trying to adjust to it, just like everyone else.