Quotes About Transition

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your way down that first mountain. Trying to jump from the summit would get you hurt or killed.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

Upon my eighteenth birthday I was given three choices: 1. Join the church, and live at home. 2. Move out and live on my own. 3. Move into the single men's home.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier. Amy in Tape.

objects. Added to the trauma of moving

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

similar job elsewhere?

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

In other words, they have failed to find the paleontological equivalent of the numerous finely graded intermediate colors (Pendleton blue, dusty rose, gun barrel gray, magenta, etc.) that interior designers covet.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Death is not the end, it is simply walking out of the physical form and into the spirit realm, which is our true home. It's going back home.... We unzip the body, so to speak, let it fall to the ground and walk through the next door clothed in our spiritual form, which was always there inside the physical body.

You can function just as long as your superiors have faith and confidence in you. When they lose it—your fault, other people's fault, whatever—then you have to leave and make room for the next guy. Your time at the plate is over.

ambivalence, it turns out, is an unavoidable companion in the search for a new dharma):

When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone." Wow.

These are strange days, knowing that I have moved into Destiny, knowing I am in exactly the right place, agonizing as it is." No war here whatsoever.

When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone.

To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne.

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.