Quotes about Transition And Growth

I started as a winger and played there for about six years but when I came to Arsenal they told me 'now you have to play me at the back' and everything just changed.

I felt Arsenal had let a lot of players go. When Thierry left I felt it was time for me to do something different and challenging.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

By taking me back, Arney brought me forward. I told her that in my reply.

Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly? Is this, this ending of our family as I know it, not the death season but the birth of the butterfly season?

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

over the next four and a half months. By fall he would

Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.

Water under the bridge and dynamite it behind you.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

Without death there would be very little progress.

We've all lost something along the way.

The only way back is the way forward.

TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

I know I wore number 70 in high school, and then when I got to Virginia Tech, I decided to go with the No. 78, and from that point, I just fell in love with and I wanted to make that number special.

As with most things in life, it's that little hop at the end…

There is a natural rhythm and flow of life. Things come and things go. I believ that when something goes, it is to make place for something new.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? p 418

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. And you will not change unless you change something you do every day.