Quotes about Transition

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

There's a profound satisfaction in finally giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we're ready to move on.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually in return for a fee, be passed from one skilled performer on to others, who might thereby achieve successes in their practical life that would otherwise have eluded them.

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.