Quotes About Transition

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Time is the dressing room for eternity.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

When you become 100, life changes completely.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

Departure should be sudden.

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.