Quotes about Growth And Transition

Things evolve. People mature.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Transcendence is transformation.

There are no hard and fast rules. Your sensibilities change as you grow older.

Abigail Van Buren

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Like a lot of us, I went through some phases on the way to finding what I felt comfortable in as myself.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Today, I embrace the beginning of a better life. I release my grip on the past and open my hand to receive the new. I accept the seeds of the future.

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

You Life is a progress, and not a station.

Time can do all sorts of things. It's almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There's nothing that time can't do. Except run backwards. That's its trouble really, it can only go one way.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Noisy aspens and remnant birches, forests of cottonwoods and poplars, take up the chorus: The world is turning into a new thing.

Identities aren't meant to be permanent. They're like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.

As Robert Kegan, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, put it, "I know of no better way to summarize development than that the subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next stage.

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place.

Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Change is the end result of all true learning.