Quotes about Transition

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Alice replied, rather shyly, I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

Nothing happens until something moves.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.