Quotes about Transition

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Change in all things is sweet.

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Time is like a river made up of the events which hap

There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.

You can live here as you expect to live there.

When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change

We cannot step twice into the same river

All those people who came into the world with me and have already left it.