Quotes About Transition

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes

Everything has changed; it's just that we can't see it.

It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.

He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.

One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you cope with.

You're not here anymore. You've got to leave in order to return to the present.

He couldn't go forward or back. It was easier just to leave the stage.

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

When you can't go back, you only have to worry about the best way of moving forward.

I ask myself how I can exist in two such different worlds in one day.

The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.

All that had been was now no more.

Love dies only when growth stops.

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

Nothing is destroyed, only changed.

There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

Sometimes you just have to let everything fall apart.

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about.

On the other hand, this need to cling, this need to hold the hand, this cry for Mom, also shows you that that's the edge of the nest. Stepping through right there—making a leap—becomes the motivation for cultivating maitri. You realize that if you can step through that doorway, you're going forward, you're becoming more of an adult, more of a complete person, more whole.