Quotes about Transition

I don't know how long my body will allow me to compete, but I can't imagine doing anything else. That day will come, and I just hope there'll be a light shining down a path telling me where to go.

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.

I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

It's not the Dark Destroyer no more, because everything synonymous with the Dark Destroyer I don't want to know.

When you pull up roots in order to fulfill a divine destiny, there is not a sense of pain or loss. Rather, there is a great expectation for things to come.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

For with God, there's always another role to undertake, a fresh assignment, and another task that will call upon everything we've experienced and learned thus far. God is never finished with us. He may, however, be finished with our current role. If so, we must be prepared to take on the next assignment that inevitably comes.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.