Quotes About Transition

He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.

How can the New Life deliver itself from the still-persistent past? A ready solution of the difficulty would be TO DIE. . . . If we cannot die altogether, . . . the most we can do is to die as much as we can. . . . To die to any environment is to withdraw correspondence with it, to cut ourselves off, so far as possible, from all communication with it. So that the solution of the problem will simply be this, for the spiritual life to reverse continuously the processes of the natural life.

The spiritual man having passed from Death unto Life, the natural man must next proceed to pass from Life unto Death. Having opened the new set of correspondences, he must deliberately close up the old. Regeneration in short must be accompanied by Degeneration.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

It is often said that it is better to leave too early rather than too late, whether it is your professional career, a party, or life itself.

I am starting all over again, I said to myself once more, but am running out of time.

The year wears away—the last year it is too—and I find myself near graduation, with every prospect of success. And from the beginning to the close my life has been one not of trouble, persecution, or punishment, but one of isolation only.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

You used to frustrate me with your shallow embrace Now you don't make me feel anything

He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.

Sometimes I feel like going down to the recycling plant. Turning myself in, jumping into the inferno, getting melted down, coming out again as someone else. Scrap metal man.