Quotes About Transition

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

God, life changes faster than you think.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

I saw all my new mom friends go through a sadness other than postpartum depression: it is grieving the loss of your old self, of who you used to be.

It's not an unkind thing to make a new home. And it will be one where all whom you love are welcomed.

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields.

He pointed me to a chair. "Making a clean break with your black family, that's good. We absolutely support you.

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.