Quotes About Transition

I thought of the fifteen years I lived 'sans papiers' in France and how Paris had belonged to me. I was like a king in France. And now that suddenly I was French, Paris was gone for me. I had abdicated the throne the French people had given to me. All those people were gone. The whole city had changed. I left for five years: three spent wandering in Europe, while two years I spent living in Muslim Morocco; and now Paris had changed and there was no going back.

The love of the saints arises from a selflessness which comes from God alone and which, with holy earnestness, desires the good of others. Is it not right, therefore, that we should continue to seek this love, even after the hearts in which it lived have ceased to beat on earth? Death according to Christian belief is not an end but a transition. Those who die in the name of Christ do not enter into the void but into the fullness of holy reality.

I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.

The decline of Buddhism in the Ganges heartland and the peninsula occurred before the Turkish conquest.

A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.

Every Winter brings it's own Spring.

Like David, you are called and anointed, but where will you land? Who will help you move from the place of a misfit to the seat of a monarch in your spiritual life? God has a plan for you, but it may look strange at first. God is getting you ready to move from a cave to coronation and conquest!

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing.

When you lead people through difficult change, you take them on an emotional roller coaster because you are asking them to relinquish something—a belief, a value, a behavior—that they hold dear. People can stand only so much change at any one time.

Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.

You know the adage "People resist change." It is not really true. People are not stupid. People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people resist is not change per se, but loss. When change involves real or potential loss, people hold on to what they have and resist the change.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

In Libya, you are made aware the whole time of the abandonment of things, the material leftovers of receding cultures

Must colour change?

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.