Quotes About Transition

Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.

Death is not a trip, but a destination.

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

The end of all things--a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair--is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.

Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost?

Retirement is fine for some people, but I got bored. I'm used to more of a fast-paced life.

The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.

Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.

Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct

A new dawn has broken, has it not?

As he wrote a friend, "I'm not at all sure what I'm getting into or getting out of but there seems to be a time for departure and this seems to be it.

The template: On the verge of a Stasis = Death moment, a flawed protagonist Breaks into Two; but when the Midpoint happens, he/she must learn the Theme Stated, before All Is Lost.

Could you go to that log?" I asked him. "No," he said, admitting the changes in the landscape and in himself, "I couldn't find that log today.

Along the way my loyalties had shifted without my even realizing it.

Years later I'd understand that a mark of adulthood is the ability to live with uncertainty.

It's said that the hearing is the last sense to go when someone is dying.

dying should be like a birthday party to end all birthday parties.

Living in that house felt a bit like living in a slowly turning kaleidoscope.

Now Early realized that a light had gone out, and

circumstances change. Industries change. Technologies change. And what may once have been a sound business model can become unsound faster than anyone could have imagined. During the transition, moreover, the company is likely to be confronted with unpleasant choices, mainly because its culture has been built around a business model that is no longer sustainable.

What had been lost in the financial crisis and the leadership transition was trust, and it was a steep price to pay. Without trust, you can't have the kind of culture that Reell once had. For that matter, you can't be a small giant without trust. Once you've lost it, moreover, it's extremely difficult to get back—especially if you lack consensus about the source of the problem and alignment around a course to follow.