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Quotes About Transition

chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
I realized that Garrett was right about one thing — I had flipped.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
~ Wendell Berry
When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
~ Wendell Berry
I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.
~ Wendell Berry
Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.
~ Wendell Berry
The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have only been on the edge of it.
~ Wendell Berry
You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.
~ Wendell Berry
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
~ Charles Kettering
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
~ Charles Lamb
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
~ Charles Lamb
Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.
~ Charles Lee
Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?
~ Charles M. Schulz
Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos...
~ Charles M. Schulz
Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!
~ Charles M. Schulz
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!
~ Charles M. Schulz
We`re not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.
~ Charles Manson
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not out last hello.
~ Charles Martin
The requirement is that we turn back. Pivot on our heels and put one foot in front of the other.
~ Charles Martin
down one giant spiral
~ Charles Martin
If you're riding a dead horse… dismount.
~ Charles Martin
don't pretend to understand all of what happened. But I do know this—this right here is just prelude. Dress rehearsal. The intro. One of these days each one of us is going to get called up and given the chance to join our voices in a song we've never heard, yet one we've known our whole lives. "My dad
~ Charles Martin
Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there.
~ Charles Martin