Quotes about Transition And Growth

Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'

Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

The process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Grief is a strange journey. Each time we embark upon it, it is as though we have never taken its roads before. No, I have that wrong: each grief brings us through a familiar landscape carved into unrecognizable contours. For we do not only lose another person; we lose the person we were with the one we lost.

Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.

So in a way it was true: as I grew, he shrank. And by this logic one day I would become a giant, and Edward would become nothing, invisible in the world. B

He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

We'd been living at Grandpa's for a little more than a year when Mrs. Crandel died. And the next day Kate Helen Branch had a baby. Uncle Burley said that was just the way things were. They put one in and pull another one out.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

It sounds good," he said. "It's the caterpillar's spats!

had only been at SUM a year

I still love Utah. I miss being out there, but sometimes you have to move on and try new things.

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

When I look back at my journey, it gives me a sense of confidence. I have been through an odd journey from Delhi to Mumbai, struggling, not having a job, shifting houses... Today, I am giving interviews. So it does give me gratitude and confidence. The fear is gone.

We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.