Quotes About Transition

I had absolutely no idea what I was about to face. I only knew that, for the first time in my life, I would be all alone.

A strange ripple...like an unexpected changing of the tide.

Don't ask me to choose between an old love and the new. That's no choice at all.

For tomorrow would be different. Still wonderful, yes. But not filled with this strange wonder. You don't have to be grown up to understand the way things change. To understand that a thing can be truly new only once, and precious because it came to you when you did not look for it.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Why didn't they go back to India?" "Oh, you know how it is. Once you are outside a place you can never go back. Not really.

es hora de seguir adelante, de dejar de lamentarse por lo que podría haber tenido y alegrarme de lo que de hecho tengo.

hace un par de años.

the present is but a door through which the future rushes to the past.

It used to be she didn't get dressed a lot of days. Now she comes out of her room most mornings dressed like she's ready to go. She still doesn't go anywhere, but the important part is, she could.

We all want to have a happy ending. A lot of times in life, sometimes you do and sometimes it feels like you don't. But you could argue if it is not a happy ending yet, maybe you are just in the middle of your story.

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

Humans are so strange. Now I have seen you. It is odd. You do not look any different. Yet I know you must be. Dying changes a person.

One cannot hold onto the past forever, after all.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect.

Siempre. Del latín semper, significa "en todo momento". Y se preguntó si su madre pensaría de cuánto tiempo estaban hablando y qué ocurriría después. Porque es evidente que en algún momento las madres deben dejar de cuidar de sus hijos.

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

Das Roß fegt dahin zwischen sanft geschwungenen, grauglitzernden Buchenstämmen — quer durchs deutsche Märchen, durchs nächtige, reiten die Vettern hinüber zum Hohlweg, zum Treffpunkt — hinter sich verbrennend alle Schiffe und Brücken.

The human mind, just because man is by nature a spiritual-rational-moral agent, will not and cannot forever shun the larger issues of truth and reality; the nonmeta-physical and antimetaphysical eras always turn out to be transition interludes.

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)