Quotes About Transition

Saying goodbye is a little like dying.

It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Everything you are learning is preparing you for something else.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

change of pace + change of place = change of perspective.

When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only.

Since you died the house style could best be described as leaves that cling to trees too long into winter

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

Our new millennium began, and it seemed a little bit possible--though surely if we examined the thought too closely, it would evaporate--that a brighter time might be ahead; we have, after all, the round, clean slate of the new number, the row of zeros after the initial digit in 2000.

It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.

There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].

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One absolutely crucial element in moving your brain from panic to logic is to put words to what you're feeling at each stage.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Life is a series of steps into the unknown.

Transtheoretical Model of Change

Here are the three keys: Get in (quickly and efficiently describe the issue), neutralize the problem (by explaining how to handle it or why it isn't really a problem), and get out (move on to the next topic —do not linger or go into excess detail). Here's an example.

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

Live like a student while you are in school, so you don't have to live like a student after you graduate.

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the last pharaoh abdicating in 1912. For China, the last century has been a period of transition - dramatic change and perpetual revolution.