Quotes About Transition

a changing environment changes us. The

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!

she also shed her youthful need to exaggerate, flaunt her wit, and trot out erudition. She still sent poems to mark an event or nudge someone to write, but her poems became less about what happened and more about what she was thinking. Poems sent in letters . . . rose above daily concerns to larger contemplations on nature, faith, and loss. Images of boats, sailors, and the view from shore appeared frequently.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Today is a part of a long journey and this isn't the last chapter. It's just one of those middle ones that takes some courage to walk through to see what comes next.

The next step after this is applying that state of being—that thin sliver of sliding into place that feels wrong and so right at the same time, that makes you question your sanity—to your green lights. Feel your way through them instead

Been here ever since, and it ain't all that different from home. S'long as I ignore the differences, hear?

Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.

Cats come and go without ever leaving.

Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new— She parts from love which hath still been true.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.

Tom says to Richard: You asked what I missed about the job. And that's it. But his tone had changed. The vanished fame, the lost acclaim, the old success.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

Each year, between 18,500 and 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care by virtue of reaching the age at which their legal right to foster care ends

In most states, on the day that a child in foster care turns eighteen, these supports largely disappear. The people who once attended to that child's needs are now either unable or unwilling to continue; a new case demands their time, a new child requires the bed.

So that was what had happened before the survey. Now we're here, ready for the next major disaster. (Spoiler alert.)

I'd have to leave the armor behind. But maybe I wouldn't need it anymore.

these weren't intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.

I had cycled out of horrified that they wanted to talk to me about my feelings into grateful that she had ordered them not to.

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.