Quotes About Transition

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Develop your Intuition so that the changes in the years to come may be convenient for you.

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

If you hate your job, don't worry, you won't have it for long.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

To fear retirement is to fear life.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.