Quotes about Transition And Growth

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.

On a personal level, change is a hard thing for me.

How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?

Sometimes in life the foundation upon which one stands will give tilt, and everything one has previously believed and held dear will begin sliding about, and suddenly all things will seem strange and new.

I have gone on beginning...

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

You never know how times will change in where you are in your life.

I went from being a junior - and probably set to be Kushida's arch-nemesis until the cows came home - to suddenly being vaulted into the heavyweight title picture for the Intercontinental championship. That taught me a lesson: I couldn't put a limit on myself.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

In every life, there was death and rebirth and continuity.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world.

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there. So

when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

When a person stops changing, stops feeling, they die…

Loss changes you. Sometimes that's bad. Sometimes it's good. Either way, you eat your goddam pork chop and go on.

Endings are hard, but important. You have to have an end, so you can have another beginning.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

las cosas cambian, crecen o se marchitan, pero que la vida continúa

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.