T. S. Eliot Quotes

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

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

Everybody is changing.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

There is always a time to move on.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

Everyone is always making transitions in life.