Quotes About Transition

And now...here I was. I stood by my bedroom window, watching Dorrie and Tegan growing smaller and smaller. The moonlight made the snow look silver – all that snow – and just looking at it made me cold.

You've been moping around for too long...It's time you grew into your next self.

It wasn't the end of their story. It was the beginning.

It's okay if you're not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you're on the way to being happy

eight-o-five, Lars still wasn't here, and Ty had switched

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.

I think I will actually miss it a little, this time of pure potential.

Can you come here?' I say. I want to touch him before the pain is upon me, before the pain seals me into a selfish world where only I exist. He comes to me, holds my hands. "So this is it," he says. "In a couple of hours we'll be parents.

Being a mother is a lot like growing up. When, or how, did you become an adult? What was the precise moment you lost your childhood? No one can say. It's all so permeable.

the way became narrower, they thought it was a river

then, with mounting excitement, recorded that the wide mouth turned into a narrows farther ahead.

Magellan replied that he had formally renounced his allegiance to King Manuel and given his loyalty to King Charles.

longer was he Fernão de Magalhães; in Spain, he became known as Hernando de Magallanes.

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

What makes coming home so jarring, compared to other returns from other exotic places—?isn't simply culture shock. It's human shock, seeing so many people again after dwelling in a place so empty of them.

The English language has such terms as: dawn, dusk, first light, daybreak, twilight, crepuscule and evenfall. Yet, not one of these terms outlines an absolute demarcation point between dark and light.

At first, you must be willing to enter a state of liminality. In other words, you must be willing to enter a state in which you stand on the threshold and are no longer grasping the worldviews and sense of yourself that you held in the past, nor yet completely ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You stand on the threshold, the doorsill, neither in one world nor another. This can be a frightening place to be.

Know that birth and death are the crests and trough of One Wave.

Life is one aspect of death and death is one aspect of life.

Death and Life are merely two sides of the same coin.

Transcend the opposites of death and life; find the Point of Singularity in which the two become One. Know that birth and death are the crest and trough of One Wave.

Until I realized that I was asking myself the wrong question. I was asking myself, Why me?" She gradually realized that she could ask a different question: What do I do as a result of having had that experience? "That was the big shift: What now?" She became almost breathless as she tried to explain the changes she experienced once she had shifted from "Why me?" to "What now?