Quotes about Transition

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Your past must die for your future to live.

There was no competition in Trump Tower for being the brains of the operation. Of the dominant figures in the transition, neither Kushner, Priebus, nor Conway, and certainly not the president-elect, had the ability to express any kind of coherent perception or narrative.