Theodore Roethke Quotes

Life is one big transition.

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?

life is a work in progress.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Change is the end result of all true learning.