Quotes about Transition And Growth

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective, to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.

When I was 15 I went to live with my aunt and uncle instead of my mum, for money reasons. It was a huge shock to my system, suddenly living with six people rather than one. Hopefully it changed me for the better.

Whether I retire tomorrow or in 20 years, I just want to get as much out as I can. But with that, I have an understanding that basketball's not forever.

Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.

The only permanence is change

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin - about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones.

Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I've come and what's changed.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old; surely six years wasn't long enough for a transformation of that magnitude.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

What happens before matters because it shapes things. But who you were a year ago isn't as important as who you are now.

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Chad Davidson

If in Los Angeles in 1949 he had preached "fast and loud," by the time he got to New York in 1957 he had learned to dial down the speed and let the microphone do the heavy lifting.

Change is the salt in the soup of life.

Remember that every age brings new opportunities. 1325

Don't go back to less just because you are too impatient to wait for better.

Life goes on. It just does, whether we're ready for the next chapter or not. Embrace it.

When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.

You can't stay who you are... Things change and you have to be able to adapt.