Quotes About Transition

They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?

It was nice to make headway; yet in her experience, a fair breeze one day was the herald of a tempest to come.

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.

Rather than spending a reasonable amount of time proactively acknowledging and addressing the fears and feelings that show up during change and upheaval, we spend an unreasonable amount of time managing problematic behaviors.

The MIDDLE is messy, but it's also where the MAGIC happens.

People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed" to live.

How did I get here from there? How do I get there from here?

People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed" to live. The unraveling is

Panic, anxiety, fear, and hysteria, followed by freedom, pride, and amazement—then a little more panic.

Here are some of the most commonly shared experiences and a few notes on the context: Watching children grow up Leaving a job Divorce/Ending a relationship Graduating

When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives.

My therapist, Diana, retired at the end of our work together (I know, don't say it).

Nothing ever stays easy for long.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.

Of course, fall isn't just about preparing for winter. It's also about sitting on the patio in a worn wool sweater and warming your hands over the swirl of steam rising from a coffee cup. It's about walking across a darkened yard and seeing a flight of geese cross the face of a full moon. It's about settling in, relishing sights and sensations of a world slowing down.

Luck is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies.

I grew here; you flew here.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them.

History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.