Quotes About Transition

It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.

It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world.

Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought there is continual development, there is not always improvement. There is change, but not necessarily growth.

Wars] can come in different shapes and guises, but always wars come in increments. I am convinced there are steps, and that once these events are set in motion, they are virtually impossible to reverse. There were other steps in the country's stumble toward war, and I remember these days clearly now. But again, at the time I did not recognize these days as such, not as steps but as days like any others.

I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life.

Alvin Toffler

When change is required, there must be trust that the initiatives for that change will be dealt with appropriately.

It takes more energy than most people realize to unhook out of one set of behaviors and get into another kind of rhythm and tool set.

Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said.

Galb?t mes amžini kažkaip kitaip...

There's no end to evolution.

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.

Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.

In fact, something always leads to something else.

The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.

You have to give it thought when you're changing your whole life.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

The girl had never ridden in a car before. She had probably never even seen a car, just the old trucks used at the camp.

man had heard all he needed to. It was time

You ask me that question two, three years ago I'd say yeah, damn straight you will. Yes sir." He looked out at the crush of people. "You ask me today, I say I don't know. I don't care what court you're in. Supreme Court, traffic court. Things are changing, man. Not just the courts either. Everything. Everybody. Whole goddamn world's changing and I just don't know anymore." They

The Americans had been on top for a very long time, at least by recent historical standards. They were due to be overtaken. Whether by the Russians or the Chinese, or both

one last look around and

Decker's longtime FBI partner, Alex Jamison, had been transferred to New York and found what looked to be love with a Wall Street investment banker. His old boss at the FBI, Ross Bogart, had retired and was learning to play golf—badly, he had heard—in Arizona.