Faith is the soul's adventure.

We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.

People can poison people

Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.

Life and summer are fleeting, ’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.

Spiritual life is contractual.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.