Quotes About Transition

And then we were gone, cascading back to the future.

In a new country, it helps to remember the things that were good once, the things we want to recreate now.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left scrambling to gather enough insulation to survive, before it all blows away. After that, you sink down into what's left, like a fragile glass vase with a crack in it, trying to avoid further damage. One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones....

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

The beginning of a journey is always uncertainty, but with uncertainty comes hope.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

Arney brought me back so I could go forward.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

I cannot put words to the feelings within me on the day we brought her out for burial. It is an odd thing to stand so close to life's beginning and life's end. Birth and death are such strange cousins. We carried my mother to the graveyard, shed tears and sang hymns, then returned home, stood over the cradle, smiled, and sang lullabies. . . .

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over. There's no going back.

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over.

Dying is a hard thing to get done, sometimes.

Maybe there came a point in

But growing up is never that easy, no matter what age you are.

It's funny how from seventeen to seventy can be the blink of an eye, all of a sudden.

By taking me back, Arney brought me forward. I told her that in my reply.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another. A death grip doesn't reach very well.

Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.