Quotes About Transition

The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio says such feelings are our wake-up to a problem "that the body has already begun to solve." The point is: We may already have entered the transition before our mind even realizes it. Here

plurality of personal-voluntary lifequakes (37 percent) involve work—switching careers, quitting a job, or retiring; 16 percent involve leaving a marriage; the rest of this category are divided

forceful burst of change in one's life that leads to a period of upheaval, transition, and renewal.

THE LINEAR LIFE IS DEAD ? THE NONLINEAR LIFE INVOLVES MORE LIFE TRANSITIONS

Here is the amazing thing: the caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact same DNA. They are the same organism but are receiving and responding to a different organizing signal.

No one is fixed until they make the effort to change.

The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.

I've had a weird couple of weeks, you know? I completely know. But I- I mean, I'm not totally happy, but there's no way I'd go back to my old obvious self! I like it here. I like all the... confusion and heartbreak. It wasn't that bad... was it? Scott... yes, it was. But I feel like I've learned some stuff along the way. I know things now.

What happened after my best friend left is that I couldn't make friends anymore, or I could make them but I couldn't enjoy them, I couldn't relate to them.

Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.

The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

Don't blame anyone for what has happened to your father. Things have changed drastically since the days of his own youth,but he has refused to see the changes...The fact is that parents get only reflected glory from their children nowadays,whereas your father has invested in all of you, just as his father invested in him so that he could help on the farm. Your father forgot that he himself left the family farm to come to this place.

You must remain. I must depart. Two autumns falling in the heart.

Dying is everything they were looking for in life.

And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.

But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.

The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

It was easy to leave what had become of my country. But hard to leave the country that it once had been.

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don't want it to last.

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.

Tuttu tunne: sitä haluaa takertua menneeseen ja olla samanlainen kuin aina ennenkin, koska eteenpäin siirtyminen on liian pelottavaa.

Some seem to regard existence here as camping out, and never make a real home, living in their trunks for years. Even those that have homes are making changes all the time, trading one for another, or building afresh. yes, really, it's almost like living in a big tent, with houses instead of tents.