Quotes About Transition

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you're poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

Divorce is now normal (quoted in the Sun, 1992)

Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

Bernard patted his arm and said, 'Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it's you who have changed.

Things had changed in a way that no one could have ever expected - and I ached with regret.

Each person's life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

You can go home again, and you can also leave again. Once more, with confidence, into the world.

Such is the condition of a first-generation immigrant for whom everything is separated into now and then, into before the move and after.

It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet?

But we also want our child to learn to obey his earthly parents, whose voices he hears say, "I love you," whose arms he feels give him hugs, in order that as he grows he will be weaned from obeying us to obeying his heavenly Father, whose voice he might not audibly hear, whose arms he won't exactly feel, yet who he has been taught loves him even more than we do. How can he learn to obey Him if he hasn't learned to obey us?

akeru. It means "to pierce, to open, to end, to make a hole in, to start, to expire, to unwrap, to turn over." When someone leaves, akeru refers to the empty space that is created, the opening in which a new beginning can take place. I was amazed at the power of a single word that could suggest that to begin and to end are the same—part of one never-ending cycle of renewal and healing. I

When someone leaves, akeru refers to the empty space that is created, the opening in which a new beginning can take place. I was amazed at the power of a single word that could suggest that to begin and to end are the same—part of one never-ending cycle of renewal and healing.

akeru. It means "to pierce, to open, to end, to make a hole in, to start, to expire, to unwrap, to turn over." When someone leaves, akeru refers to the empty space that is created, the opening in which a new beginning can take place. I was amazed at the power of a single word that could suggest that to begin and to end are the same—part of one never-ending cycle of renewal and healing.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

Three days: that's the average time for someone to relapse after getting out of prison.

around her lonely apartment, she decided to pack up and go back to Alpine Grove.

Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water--I couldn't have guessed what emotion it was. "I'll miss you," he said.

It was part of the excruciating in-betweenness of no longer being children, yet lacking those powers enjoyed by adults.

Cock and hands are precocious enough. They belong to a fortunate, confident man, and have traveled in time for unguessable reasons to append themselves to a teenager. Unlike them his mouth is not a foreign power; it's her own missing part.

We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic - and then we go Back to the same old lives again.

If little girls will forget to be little, and take it upon them to become young ladies, they must bear the consequences, one of which is, that we can follow their fortunes no longer.

How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently

Midlife is a time of explosive change, when our hormones rampage and our bodies alter, forcing us into a whole new chapter of life whether we want it or not. Everyone has a moment when they realise for sure that this so-called passage of time is changing them - and perhaps not in a good way.

In the '90s, I kind of put aside all those things I loved in the '80s and I got really into watching foreign films and art films and stuff like that, and sort of soaking those up.