Quotes About Transition

People come, people go - they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favourite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventure.

That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on--that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs

Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness you wouldn't otherwise get. People come, people go—they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

No, I mean with us. Do you think we would have made it? It took a moment for her to answer. I don't know, Noah. I really don't, and you don't either. We're not the same people we were then. We've changed. Both of us. She paused. He didn't respond, and in the silence she looked towards the creek. She went on. But yes, Noah, I think we would have. At least, I'd like to think we would have.

She paused, as if trying to organize her chaotic thoughts. "I didn't want to fall in love with anyone," she said. "I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess. I know it's different, but you'll be leaving in just a few days and all this will be over… and I'll be a mess again.

Habit and tradition often render change undesirable.

Before getting to the the light, you must pass through a deep darkness.

Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to offer.

But as time passed, I came to realize that there was only so much I could do myself. That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on—that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

When you get into that mould of being a super sub you can't go back.

People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do you do?

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.

I've just always been interested in moving past the keyboard and mouse.

When we transitioned from the PC to the console with 'Fable,' it took us five years to do that. And that's just going from a mouse to a controller.

I used to always wear a mouthpiece my whole life - a big pacifier.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.