Quotes About Transition

There will come a time, a pastor once told him in prison, when you believe everything is finished. But that will only be the beginning.

Beulah drifts deeper. Part of her knows tonight is the night she will not wake from her slumber. Come morning she will be gone, and this house will be Horton's.

He felt surreal, as if suspended in a dreamscape between day and night as he chased time westward.

It's best not to resist the change the "Death" tarot card brings. Resisting will make transition difficult. And painful. Instead one should let go, embrace the necessary change, see it as a fresh start. The Death card is a sign that you need to draw a line through the past in order to move forward. It says: Release what no longer serves you.

Death card is a sign that you need to draw a line through the past in order to move forward. It says: Release what no longer serves you.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

In fact, the word transition seems to me to be used incorrectly. Most people use it to mean going from one identity to another, such as with surgery or the use of hormones. I understand it to mean that the person has the other identity already and the transition involves the perceptions of society aligning with that identity. In this "word flip" it is not the person who is transitioning but society, which is transitioning its perceptions of that person.

over the next four and a half months. By fall he would

We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change." It was a paraphrase of something he'd read that had resonated with him both personally and as a therapist, he told me, because it was a theme that informed nearly every person's struggles.

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.

With aging comes the potential to accrue many losses: health, family, friends, work, and purpose.

The nature of life is change, but the nature of people is to resist change.

I think of something else Wendell once said: "The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change." It was a paraphrase of something he'd read that had resonated with him both personally and as a therapist, he told me, because it was a theme that informed nearly every person's struggles.

Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it's one damn thing after another.

at a life stage when everyone else is moving forward; the thirties are a decade of building the foundation of the future. He's out of sync with his peers, and in his own way, in his own grief, he probably feels completely alone.

Unfortunately, sometimes people leave just as their symptoms lift, not realizing (or perhaps knowing all too well) that the work is just beginning and that staying will require them to work even harder.

I remember reading a divorced woman's experience of getting to know a new lover after her decades-long marriage ended: "I will never lock eyes in the delivery room with David," she wrote. "I've never met his mother.

think of something else Wendell once said: "The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change." It was a paraphrase of something he'd read that had resonated with him both personally and as a therapist, he told me, because it was a theme that informed nearly every person's struggles

The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.

I think of something else Wendell once said: "The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.