Quotes About Transition

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." ? Joseph Campbell

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

Helena (börjar gråta): Ser du, nu gråter jag. Det glada, fina livet är slut, det hemska, skitige livet kastar sig över oss. Så är det.

Too Soon to Say Goodbye, Buchwald writes about how he came to be admitted to a hospice facility in the Washington, D.C.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

For God's sake, even her parents no longer read Dostoyevsky--haven't they suffered enough, they would say; after thirty years of communism, didn't they DESERVE Danielle Steele?

You know why they call it the Garden State, don't you? It's like the Garden of Eden-- everyone is from there originally, but no one you meet actually lives there anymore.

Larissa grew quiet, her skin burnished with a rosy glow. Through childhood, she had been the easiest of children, clingy and shy, but eager to please Nadia. The former was just now shedding but a difficult age was looming, when you could visibly see the closing of the gates, your child's mind shutting itself off from you growing impenetrable. Just in the last few months, Nadia watched a new, defiant personality that was pushing against the safe borders carefully crafted for her.

himself like a comet." "A supernova," Venable said. "He went back to traditional values

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Forget for a while that you have glasses on your nose and autumn in your heart.

Youth isn't the problem—it'll pass with the years…

Feeling uncomfortable about a situation is oftentimes the indicator that growth is about to take place.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

El mundo se dirige hacia la tumba como la noche hacia el alba.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.