Charles Dickens Quotes

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Life is one big transition.

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

Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Everything changes.

All things change.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

Any time you make a change, and a major change, as you try to establish something, there's a lot of question marks there on what's going to happen moving forward.

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.

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.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

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

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.