Quotes About Transition

People change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than the pain associated with the change.

you changed when the cost associated with not changing outweighed the price you had to pay to change. When it comes to our ministries, we tend to be slow to change because we underestimate what it will cost if we don't change. It is possible for us to embrace a style of ministry that becomes outdated simply because it is easier to maintain instead of change.

We know the old world is collapsing, but the contours of the new world are not yet entirely clear. Some of the call functions of the old models will survive. Many will not, at least not in their present form.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Bailey handed Molly the pen and she had Molly Parmelia written when he halted her with a gentle touch to her back. "Don't forget your new name." "Oh, you're right." She bit her tongue and scripted out Garner with a flourish. "How's that?" "Beautiful." But he wasn't looking at her penmanship. "So

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

How come you still go on about your religion even after you gave it up?'...'It would be truer to say it gave me up, or rather it directed me to another path. But I still need it to tell me who I am. What about you Sam? Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones who are so sure who they are that external help isn't necessary.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.

History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

When you pull up roots in order to fulfill a divine destiny, there is not a sense of pain or loss. Rather, there is a great expectation for things to come.

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

None of us is leading quite the life we were at all prepared for.

I think that when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray.

Andiamo a casa tua o all'Elaine's?» ha chiesto il ragazzo. Erano le tre del mattino. Aveva divorziato da poco. In quel momento la stessa domanda risuonava nei taxi di tutta New York.

Comme si pendant le temps de notre vie, et moins encore, la France était en train de changer de peuple : on en voit un, on fait la sieste, c'en est un autre, ou plusieurs autres, et qui paraissent appartenir à d'autres rivages, à d'autres ciels, d'autres architectures, d'autres mœurs — c'est ce qu'ils semblent penser eux aussi.

She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. "When you are ready to inhabit a new skin," she said, "we will be waiting for you.

If there are ever times when I would regret the choice York is making, it is times like these, when life feels like another page waiting to get turned.

He was sweet as a baby, you know? Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump.