Quotes About Transition

Things do not change; we change.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

You never came out the way you came in.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Change begets change.

You can't go home again

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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.

You raze the old to raise the new.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!