Quotes about Transition And Growth

When you're through changing, you're through.

An autobiographical occasion is any moment when we are encouraged or obliged to reimagine who we are. It's a narrative event, when our existing life story is altered or redirected in some way, forcing us to revisit our preexisting identity and modify it for our life going forward. And nearly everyone goes through such moments.

In early September, there come

I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'

Moving to a new school, or up a year at an existing school - with new friends, teachers, subjects, rules and expectation - is a big deal for young people. All of us who are adults remember how daunting it was, but we sometimes take it for granted that children will be able to cope with the change.

What I've learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don't happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

If you're let go from Celtic, the club you support, and go to Queen's Park, people think it's a disaster. I don't think I cried, but I was very upset. As a young boy, your dream has been taken away. But I had good people around me, and it was probably the best thing that happened.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

Life had been thrust onto him brutally and without warming; the needed time to digest its newness.

When someone leaves, akeru refers to the empty space that is created, the opening in which a new beginning can take place. I was amazed at the power of a single word that could suggest that to begin and to end are the same—part of one never-ending cycle of renewal and healing.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

None of us are what we once were.

Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new companions are found. No one is left alone for long.

I am just a chapter in your life, there will be many more.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

I think Kentucky really prepared me for Miami.

The thing about loss-of-innocence stories, the reason they hit so hard, is that they're so final. You can never go back.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. —Rumi (Jalal ad-Din)

It can be just as helpful to focus on the immediate next steps. Beginning the journey, and being willing to explore various pathways, can be as productive as setting out with a final destination in mind.