Quotes About Transition

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O'Connor

There are times in people's lives when a significant event occurs and they're not aware of it—the last time you pick up a son before he's too heavy, the final kiss of a marriage gone bad, the view of a beloved landscape you'll never see again. Weeks later, I realized those were Dad's last words to me.

As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

When Death comes, I want to be ready.

The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it.

In paese incontrò alcuni studenti in ferie. Ci si salutava, restando insieme per qualche minuto. una traccia di imbarazzo malgrado la reciproca confidenza. La consapevolezza che anche l'altro avvertiva che l'infanzia era definitivamente trascorsa.

ser adulta consistía en ese juego: perderse de vista a sí misma

Adolescence is a time of uncertainty, stuffed with expectations and glazed with rebellion

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

himself: after the locomotive

Throwing the leg of lamb out the window may have been Aunt Carol's outward expression of the process going on within her soul: the reclaiming of herself. Perhaps it was her way of saying how tired she was of waiting on her family, of signaling to them that she was past the cook/chauffeur/dishwasher stage of life. For many women, if not most, part of this reclamation process includes getting in touch with anger and, perhaps, blowing up at loved ones for the first time.

According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls.

Knowing he couldn't go back to

I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then what?" I ask. "Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in." I consider this for a moment. "What if it's too small but you still want to live there?" She sighs. "Gracious, child, what a question. I suppose you'll either have to be brave and find a new home or you'll have to live inside a broken shell.

How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it...

Because we're older. And this is where we belong." "No it isn't. It is just where we ended up.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting

FLOWERS FADE, FREEZE in an early frost, wither on the vine. Trees burst into flame and burn themselves out. Leaves crumble to ash.

The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.

And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.