Quotes About Transition

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

With the coming of these people who know the language, we are losing our liberty to speak, he remarked to himself.

She had realised that they couldn't be together. She didn't want to make a romantic drama out of it, she didn't want to sigh and mope or scream hysterically to impress others with how awful it all was, even though she felt as if something fundamental, deep within her, had been taken away from her. She was simply trying to cope, to get on with her own normal life. Which, she knew, was something he could not be a part of.

Since being back in London everything seemed greyer, but clearer. She couldn't explain it. The strangest thing was she couldn't recall her New York self. She wanted that part of herself back, but she couldn't remember what it was like to be that Elle. She would catch a whiff of it, like the snatch of a song that still won't lead you to the chorus, and then it would be gone.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Change is an anxiety-arousing business, both for the one doing the changing and for those affected by the change. Often we fear that another person's move toward new ideas and experiences will create a gulf so wide that we will not be able to reach them.

You know, Dad," Ben said matter-of-factly, "as we get closer and closer to home, I can just feel the layers of maturity peeling off me.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue

Change is an anxiety-arousing business because whenever you make a change, you can't make only one. There is no guarantee where it will stop.

Learning is finding. Finding is losing something else.

Big changes in our lives are more or less a second chance.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Right now this feels like everything. Right now it always is. It's only afterwards that we can see there's more than this. You can be informed by this without being formed by this just as a calm before the storm there is a dark before the dawn in this.

When I die - die properly, I mean - I'd want to feel the whole process. I'd want my ordinary seconds to expand, suddenly, to hours, so that I could watch, one by one, as my cells figured out that things weren't working any more. As, one by one, they drew the curtains, flipped the lights, slipped quietly away into the dark.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

3. Don't attempt to perpetuate a relationship by contract. Change is inevitable.

Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

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People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings - until they put the key in their front door. Then the wings fold up, and they are home again, as though in the center of an impassable steel ring on the horizon. The moment they close the door behind them, they can no longer imagine they have ever been away.

The process of putting Haarlem behind him resembled the changes a man goes through when he divorces. He takes a girl friend to forget his wife, but just doing that prolongs the connection with the wife. Possibly things will work out only with the next girl friend - although the third one has the best chance. Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, fore everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with the ending.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.

Die Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten begannen. Der Tote ist vergessen, der Lebende hat sein Land und seine Ehre in Besitz genommen. Das war bei ihm gut aufgehoben.