Quotes About Transition

In 1999, Chad Daybell, now thirty-one, quit his sexton job to become regional sales manager for Access Computer Products. The Colorado-based company, which recycled electronic products, was looking to expand and needed someone to run their new Provo office. For Chad it would mean a big increase in salary from this growing company.

Being dead is an improvement on a lot of things I can think of. Trying to sell mutual funds, for example.

If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.

Anyone who knows anything knows that almost nothing ever ends, and when it does, it rarely ever does so well.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, at rest.

Remember: the journey is the destination.

Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

What you are able to walk away from will determine what God can bring you to!

But death and blood was part of what it took to go from boy to man, no matter what my mother had to say about it.

Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.

At that moment, though, she stood there on stage, perched atop a pair of ruby-red heels, looking less like Eliza Doolittle than Dorothy; the girl swept up in the cyclone, lifted out of her black-and-white world and deposited in a Technicolor Oz.

In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

At a time when I was trying to make something of myself, they were a destabilizing influence.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.

After the Wall