Quotes About Transition

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.

Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

If only cats grew into kittens.

When sudden change catapults you into something new, remember this: God has a better idea for how you should spend this time of your life. You may stubbornly say, "I am going to stay right here where this brook was, no matter what." But if the brook has dried up, like it or not, you have to move on. It is

When the brook dries up, we know it is time to move. God has something better in mind. Count on it. He will never leave you nor forsake you (seen Hebrews 13:5). No good thing will He withhold from you when it is God's will

When the brook dries up because there is no rain, but you say, "Praise the Lord," you bring great honor to God. Trust Him to show you the next step forward. He will. He is never too early, never too late, but always just on time. When God closes a door, He opens a window. Learn to accept the closed door and be prepared for the surprising window that will open. It opened for Elijah and it will open for you.

I don't want to interfere with my children's lives any more than you do, but I want them to be happy. Must growing up always mean a breaking up?" she asked sadly. "No, but it often means a breaking away," the captain said. "And you wouldn't want them to stay anchored for the rest of their existence, growing barnacles all over them and rotting away with rust.

But how did you convince people to come out of hiding when hiding was all they had known?

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Chanakya says that as a Brahmin moves on after receiving offerings, a student goes his way after completing his education and animals abandon a burnt forest, similarly, a man should quickly leave the abode taken up for attaining his objective, after achieving his objective. This will indicate his wisdom.

Over the time, it has been renamed several times-Pushpur, Pushpnagar, Kusumpur, Patliputra and now it is called Patna.

All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo. I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

Satan said, You are a temp in life.

What is life if not a habitation to loss?

I don't hesitate when buying green bananas, but I'm slowing down.

Some days are not new book days.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.