Quotes About Transition

My feelings for her were veering too quickly from bitter to sweet.

But in a way, Libby, this presents you with a really interesting new phase of your life. I mean, what do you want to be when you grow up?" I could tell this was supposed to be charming, but it brought a burst of rage up in me. I didn't want to be anything, that was the fucking point.

It seemed to me that she'd been expelled into this world not quite formed.

such: From the first morning after the move, when she

Oh, here's the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

Things will never stay the same. The only one sure thing is change. That's why there's always tomorrow.

All the beautiful plants that once had an entire sun porch for themselves in the home she had exchanged thirty years of her life to pay for would now have to fight for light on a crowded windowsill.

You know how eighth graders are anti-everything? Well, sixth graders are the opposite of that. They're super gung ho, since being in middle school is still a big deal for them. Give them a year—they'll wise up.

What are your thoughts for the upcoming season?

Occasionally we hear the story of an organizational leader who, having given powerful leadership to an institution, comes toward the end of his working life and keeps holding on to leadership long after he should have let it pass into the hands of someone in a younger generation. Or he ensures that the leadership passes into the hands of a son or a daughter so that he can maintain his influence.

Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

Soon he would move on.

As I now move, graciously, I hope, towards the door marked Exit, it occurs to me that the only thing I ever really liked to do was go to the movies.

I am alone in my study. I have already put away Julian's papers. The thing is finished. The world Julian wanted to preserve and restore is gone... but I shall not write forever, for who can know the future? Meanwhile, the barbarians are at the gate. Yet when they breach the wall, they will find nothing of value to seize, only empty relics. The spirit of what we were has fled. So be it.

and so his secretary of state, Acheson, was told to wait until February 1949, after the election, to present to Congress our changeover from a Western Hemisphere republic to an imperial European polity, symmetrically balanced by our Asian empire, centered on occupied Japan and, in due course, its tigerish pendant, the ASEAN alliance.

Old and cherished ideas die hard.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness

When you feel unable to change your bar you have become old.