Quotes About Transition

and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?

Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.

Did you know a crab will escape its shell thirty times before it dies? ... This world can be a trying place ... Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are

Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.

Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment—to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began—Morrie stopped breathing.

But all endings are also beginnings.

I'm so sorry, Sarah gasped, tears pouring down her cheeks. It just felt like... the end. Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them—a mother's approval, a father's nod—are covered by moments of their own accomplishments.

No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person that I'm trying to become.

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

Al morir se pone fin a una vida, no a una relación personal.

Children begin by needing their parents. Over time, they reject them. Eventually, they become them.

Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go so desperately.

Small towns begin with a sign. The words can be as simple as the title of a story--Welcome to Harberville, Now entering Clawson--but once you cross, you are inside that story, and all that you do will be part of its tale.

Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.

Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

There is life after this life.

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.

The curtain has just come down on childhood

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.