Quotes about Transition

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically.

And suddenly you just know it's time to start something new and trust in the magic of beginnings.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time.

The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

Death is a sort of lens, thought I used to think of it as a wall or shut door. It changes things and makes them clear.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.

Now, surely, I am getting old, for my memory of myself as a young man seems now to be complete, as a story told. The young man leaps, and lands on an old man's legs.