Quotes About Transition

but loss is the one constant we all have to deal with. It's the price of living. We lose parents, friends, relatives. We lose the place we grew up in, and we lose the whole circle of our acquaintances. We spend ungodly amounts of time wondering whatever happened to former teachers and lovers and scoutmasters.

the media treated the notion of a one-time Barack Obama voter turning on the Democrats to vote for Trump as preposterous. This transition was impossible because, to the media, all Trump voters were simply racists... and racists don't vote for black presidential candidates, do they?

All at once, I went from successful social justice activist, to unemployed racist.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

There's a leaf clinging fast to a branch, though withered, it somehow holds on, and a single bird singing its song, though all of its kindred have gone. And as long as that little leaf stays, and as long as that stubborn bird sings, then autumn remains in the world, and winter must wait in the wings.

My dear child, you have no idea what is happening. Your life, the way you know it, is coming to an end. You just wait and see what is going to happen to us!" I thought to myself, what the hell is she talking about? The Russian soldiers seemed so friendly and kind.

The questions Wile E. Coyote—and all business leaders—must ask themselves are these: How has my environment changed? How soon must I stop doing what I have been doing? And how do I change course?

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Don't get stuck with one pedal down and one pedal up.

We don't get over losing the dogs who have been a part of our lives. We just get used to living without them.

If there is one 'constant' in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

get it." They emerged from the doorway and moved

thinking that this conversation was going

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

Madeleine Tully turned fourteen yesterday, but today she did not turn anything. Oh, wait. She turned a page.

Death is ear-splitting, it's shattering with absence; over time, it's quieter.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

a gorgeous end-of-summer-just-starting-to-be-fall day. The trees swayed in the breeze. The sky was the color of cornflowers