Quotes About Transition

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

Stage 1: Pre-contemplation Stage 2: Contemplation Stage 3: Preparation Stage 4: Action Stage 5: Maintenance

procrastinate or self-sabotage as a way to stave off change — even positive change — because they're reluctant to give something up without knowing what they'll get in its place.

As a therapist, I know a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss. But I also know something less commonly understood: that change and loss travel together. We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same. To help John, I'm going to have to figure out what his loss would be,

people procrastinate or self-sabotage as a way to stave off change — even positive change — because they're reluctant to give something up without knowing what they'll get in its place.

Even though I'm the one who should be holding her hand, even though she's the one with the missing appendages and a massive infection, she's reassuring me. And though this could make a great story line on ER, in that millisecond, I know I won't be working on that show much longer. I am going to medical school.

How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.

must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn't summon up the energy to make them.

But this was just making her feel claustrophobic. They couldn't carry on like this; she was going to have to do something about it.

She was determined to make amends. Her old life was behind her and the new one had begun.

But that was then. This was now. She was a different person these days.

The word "crisis" is from the Greek, meaning "a moment to decide." The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

Change is good but dollars are better. - Tara daniels

There are three stages of life: 1. Birth. 2. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? 3. Death.

The whole birth thing though," Elle said. "It just seems like a poor exit strategy, doesn't it?

I deserve more. I mean I understand I do. Once you've protected someone the way you protected me, you get… well, protective. But I'm no longer that sixteen-year-old girl, Archer. I'm a grown woman.

How ironic was it that in order to get her fresh start, she'd have to face her past?

down to the floor, she accepted that she was

What does a sign on an out-of-business brothel say?" He beamed. "Beat it, we're closed.

Once upon a time, walking away was the only thing I knew how to do.

I've learned that life is a crapshoot, and at any moment someone can walk into it and change it forever.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. —Rogers Hornsby

Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.