Quotes About Transition

Sometimes it takes getting a little lost to recognize a path.

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

Everything isn't dead. Only gone.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

time for the new CEO to feel that he or she knows what the issues and problems are, but not enough time to have gotten his or her arms around the solutions.

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

Nothing is an end because it always can be a basis for something new and different.

Who's the genius who thought replacing Dick Clark with Ryan Seacrest was a good idea?

was a very important distinction in the '60s. Either you were blues and jazz or you were rock and roll, but rock and roll had died and gone pop—nothing left in it.

The very night that the trajectory of my life had been set — I was an executioner's son, and so would be an executioner — was also the night my world became unmoored.

Happy ending roll credits pick our way out, over crushed pieces of popcorn to emerge into the glaring light of day

Interesting that the book used the word define. That's just what I've been thinking about. This business of defining who you are and what you are and where you are headed- it's all harder than I thought it would be. I thought that this stuff just... happened, I thought that life just happened, and I guess I thought I'd drift right along, like a leaf on a river, flowing with the current to wherever the river wanted to go.

Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.

Death, Randa thought, elevated people.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol ' or when I was 10.

This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.