Quotes About Transition

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.

Throw out old clothes and shoes, and train your brain to get rid of old thoughts and ideas.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

we were sucked into the sea of gyrating bodies like socks into a washing machine's agitator. Seconds later, bruised and sweaty and alone, I was spit out at the other end.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.

Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between

life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.

That no matter how good or bad things were, they were never permanent.

Sometimes, just when we think we can see our lives on course and we can settle back and get comfortable, a new path opens. Some people just keep going, too scared to veer off the familiar path. But others, well, they step off into the unknown, and find that maybe that was where they were supposed to be all along.

over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so

graduation.

My childhood had been vanishing bit by bit while I'd been living in New York, trying to pretend it had never existed. Maybe that was what the old saying – that a person can never really go home again – was all about. You couldn't go home because even though home might still be there in brick and mortar, everything else would be unrecognizable.

impermanence of things and how nothing stayed the same no matter how much you wanted it to.

Things always change, Eva. You cannot control change. You can only be prepared for it.

Längtan är en lek. När den växer till allvar, kallas den ångest.

You have a daughter who's been through puberty," he said inquisitively. "So what was it like?" "Oh," Sejer said, looking out the window. "It was mostly Elise who handled that type of thing. But I do remember it. Puberty is a really rough time. She was a sunbeam until she turned thirteen, then she began to snarl. She snarled until she was fourteen, then she began to bark. And then it wore off.