Quotes About Transition

There is a powerful human compulsion to leave things tied up in neat little bundles. But every journey except your last has an open end. And any journey of value is above all a chapter in a personal odyssey. Its end is not so much a goal attained as another point in a continuing process. And the important thing at the end of a journey--or of a book--is to keep moving forward, refreshed, with as little pause as possible.

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.

Was there ever any doubt? And as the spotlights fade away, And you're escorted through the foyer, You will resume your callow ways, But I was meant for the stage.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Life is a fast-moving train; we're just passengers aboard changing carriages and waiting for our unique time to disembark.

The day of my death will not be the day of his.

To gain, we must first lose.

Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection points that might have taken a different turn.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Only memories stay the same, young lad. Everything else changes

Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

You do a lot of growing up when you're pregnant. It's suddenly like, "Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over."

Everybody changes, Ellie figured. Everybody starts out as one kind of person and ends up being somebody else. … Even when you don't notice it, life is rearranging you.

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

When we are no longer children we are already dead.

night is here but the barbarians have not come. And some people arrived from the borders, and said that there are no longer any barbarians. And now what shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were some kind of solution.