Quotes About Transition

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Up is never where you are now.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different...

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

Most of us don't see it that way, but there are chapters in our lives," he said quietly. "We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising, don't you think?

you should never prepare for old age, just let it happen and deal with it when it does.

It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.

there are chapters in our lives," he said quietly. "We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising

This was the way it was meant to be, when parents slipped gently away, and the next generations moved on.

I kept telling myself it was just temporary, but one day temporary becomes your whole life. You wake up, and you're not twenty or twenty-seven anymore, you're thirty-eight and you've given up all your dreams. I don't want to do that again. That's why I came here. From now on, I want things to be different, and this was the first step. I want to make decisions, not just float along letting life happen to me. I want more than that.

Navigating the shoals of grief had become familiar to her. She knew from losing Arthur that losing someone was a process, you didn't let go all at once, you let go inch by inch, or millimeter by millimeter. It had taken her a year after Arthur to feel human again.

He had enormous compassion for the suffering of others, which often came from having suffered oneself. But he was starting a new life in Denver, and opening his eyes to life again.

He seemed so far away and suddenly so independent. She couldn't believe the time had finally come for him to leave for college, and she still looked depressed the next day at work.

We were kids in college with no responsibilities. It takes more than a wedding to make a marriage," she said sadly.