Quotes About Transition

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Tomorrow will be a new day.

Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Y es más triste un amor que nace y se cría sobre la tumba de otro y como una planta que se alimenta, como de mantillo, de la podredumbre de otra planta.

Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

It's almost always sadder to stay than to depart

As ilhas são lugares de solidão e nunca isso é tão nítido como quando partem os que apenas vieram de passagem e ficam no cais, a despedir-se, os que vão permanecer. Na hora da despedida, é quase sempre mais triste ficar do que partir e, numa ilha, isso marca uma diferença fundamental, como se houvesse duas espécies de seres humanos: os que vivem na ilha e os que chegam e partem.

Não há regresso. Há viagens sem regresso nem repetição.

it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath use

Leaders must always be looking to give away their jobs to people who can do it as well or better than they. This calls for a level of intimacy between the leader and disciple that does not last. The leader begins to disengage; the disciple now becomes a leader. The closeness remains and is no longer defined by the amount of time spent together but by the openness with one another.

In 1997 I began working as an assistant professor at Caltech, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing.

KEEP YOUR JOB until your real estate investing produces far more than your job income. Once you have confidently achieved this, you should be able to have a very smooth transition into full-time real estate investing.

Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.