Quotes about Transition
We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Oh God! One minute it's my world, and the next I'm the world's fool.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Steve Jobs
Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.
- Robin Jones Gunn
Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.
- Liz Curtis Higgs
Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.
- Louise Hay
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
- Laurence Sterne
There is no success without a successor.
- John Maxwell