Quotes About Transition

What nobody tells you about getting engaged is he asks you and you're delirious for about 2 days and then it tapers. He asks you and you're running around telling grocery clerks and ordering subscriptions to bride magazines and discussing prong settings, and then after 2 days this ebullience passes. And instead of looking ahead you are suddenly struck by everything you are leaving behind.

I notice that, as the wedding date approaches, some doors are opening and others are closing. I have no control.

She'd been big on scrapbooking in her before life, never in life after James though. No one needed to record the utter grief and heartbreak so they could look back at it in years to come, just to relive those days when life couldn't possibly be any darker and the future looked an impossible fantasy

On becoming a mother, I had forever left that solitary state of girlhood behind, and if I sometimes pined to be alone with Augustine as we used to be in our first love, a quick glance at my sleeping son's face soon banished such foolish thoughts. It was as if Augustine and I had been in a beautiful bubble but when my body split open in childbirth, the shimmering membrane broke and we were delivered to the world.

Soon Earth will be in a vibratory plane where their bodies cannot survive, so you will be free of them by that means.

But we all know that things change. Whether we want them to or not.

And when we left Colorado last month, I wasn't sure if I'd ever make another friend again." "But then I came into your life. Sounds like fate to me.

And with that choice, my heart breaks. I'm saying goodbye to who I used to be. Who I can never really be again.

We were never good with good-byes.

Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can't have just the one.

It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of personal unknowns must now be factored together with the frightening variables of experience. The future suddenly appears--it is the space upon which the answers will be inscribed.

We never know, do we, if the future is just more of the present pushed forward, or whether the look and feel, not to mention the fundamental essence of life might not be changing

Nocne orgie zast?piono pie?niami religijnymi.

Swami Vivekananda

Man is miserable this moment, happy the next.

When you do make losses, or you have businesses that don't succeed, it's about knowing when to stop and do something else.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

When things finish, you think, 'It's over' but you realise sometimes, it's just the beginning of something else.

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

There's years of growth and emotions in that hair. And it gets cut off and you're like, 'I'm really metamorphosing into something else. I'm emerging.'