Quotes About Transition

Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.

Like love, grief fades in and out.

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.

The old frontiers have been conquered, and the boundaries of the new are not so clearly marked.

Betty Friedan via Lynn Gilbert

March was doing exactly as it should; it had come in like a lamb, now it was going out like a lion. ~Only Betty Neels~

Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

But maybe when he has worked at ShopRite longer, he will like it better. New jobs take getting used to.

Maybe when things start to change, you want to hold on to something familiar.

Never again would he stand all day at a cash register, ringing up groceries for a long line of people who were always in a hurry. Ramona

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own.

Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years.

The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing , but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy. Now if you will excuse me I have to drive to Vermont and collect some mail from a Mr. Bubba.

We are so used to having a lot of comfort in our lives—to being clean, warm, and well fed—that we forget how recent most of that is. In fact, achieving these things took forever, and then they mostly came in a rush.

It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis.

It shows that for most of its recent history Earth has been nothing like the stable and tranquil place that civilization has known, but rather has lurched violently between periods of warmth and brutal chill.

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes into view, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will close you down, then silently disassemble and go off to be other things. And that's it for you.

According to the new theory, an electron moving between orbits would disappear from one and reappear instantaneously in another without visiting the space between