Quotes About Transition

Anyone can go into Death," said Mogget, with a smirk. Coming back again is the difficult part.

True love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course. We cannot take credit for the kind and generous things we do while under the influence of the obsession.

When you're through changing, you're through." Bruce Barton

I would like to make three other observations. First, they illustrate clearly that what we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

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Whenever you enter a season of change, remember to look to the God of Creation who loves you in and out of season. — Alyssa Santos —

Our response to change consists of emotions, attitudes, and actions.

true love cannot begin until the "in-love" experience has run its course.

We agreed there was no benefit to our living together any longer, so we split.

In fact, true love cannot begin until the "in-love" experience has run its course.

As we enter a new year, I'm reminded that we can't cling to the security of the past, or even today. We have to keep moving on into an insecure future, where we don't know what will happen. But we don't move into the future alone. The One who loves us best will be there with us every step of the way.

Once the experience of falling in love has run its natural course (remember, the average in-love experience lasts two years), we will return to the world of reality and begin to assert ourselves.

Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years.1 For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less. But the average is two years. Then we come down off the emotional high and those aspects of life that we disregarded in our euphoria begin to become important.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

In our company the trick is to change jobs in time to guarantee that the long-term pay-off you promised four years ago in your capital budget proposal becomes someone else's short-term performance target.

This is the final book about Brian

Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they've always been is better.

But perhaps more than his body was the change in his mind, or in the way he was--was becoming. I am not the same, he thought. I see, I hear differently.

Sometimes it would be nice if life just kept happening the way it's happening, if things got to a good place and just stayed there, didn't change.

So. So. So here I am." And there it is, he thought. For

But life has a way of pulling the rug out from under you just when you need it least, which is what they like to call growing, I guess, but as far as I'm concerned you can have it. It seems like everything they call growing up has to jerk your guts out and just about wreck you and I've never been able to understand why that's supposed to be good for you.

to him in legal terms how all that he lived in was coming apart—and the breaking and shattering of all the solid things. His home, his life—all the solid things. Divorce. A breaking word

1979. Coming to America after a childhood spent in the Soviet Union is equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor.

It's so difficult to go to a strange town, even in America. I went to Dayton once, when I was in a basketball camp...