Quotes About Transition

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

In my end is my beginning

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it's coming: The end.

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.