Quotes about Transition

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

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos...

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn't be successful until I let the street life go.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

Very few people wake up one morning and decide to change their theology. Changes in a person's belief system are seldom that self-conscious.

have a tendency to do this with parenting: If I can just get through the diaper phase. . . . Once my children were out of diapers, it became: If I can just get through these early years of elementary school, then I can minister to others.