"Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all."

Transition, End, Beginning, Change, Hope

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"Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all."

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"They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Transition, End, Change, Connection, Life

"This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction ofDemian, but even this was a distant fate. I did not know myself, for I was too deeply involved. It had begunwith Beatrice, but for some time I had been living in such an unreal world with my paintings and my thoughtsof Demian that I'd forgotten all about her, too. I could not have uttered a single word about my dreams andexpectations, my inner change, to anyone, not even if I had wanted to. But how could I have wanted to?"

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Transition, Change, Isolation, Self, Expression

"Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Transition, Fear, Life, Whisper

"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."

William Throsby Bridges, Australian Soldier

Transition, Disappointment

"We move between two darknesses."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Transition, Life, Uncertainty, Darkness

"Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk."

Bill Nye, American Educator

Transition, Spring, Talk, Winter

"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Transition, Beginning, End, Art, Life

"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."

John C. Calhoun, American Statesman

Transition, Confusion, Error, Fanaticism, Old

"I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Transition, Change, Stagnation, Home, Perception

"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Transition, Past, Future, Acceptance, Letgo

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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."

Advice

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

Evil

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."

Money

"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."

Youth

"It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top."

Leadership

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Living

"We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later."

Growth

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."

Friendship

"Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?''What?''A sport!''And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy."

Relationship

"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."

Survival