Quotes About Transition

In its purest form, a story starts with a character who lives in peace and stability. Suddenly that stability is disrupted:

People love movies about characters who transform, and they love businesses that help them experience transformation themselves.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Two months after leaving Paris, Lafayette, began calling himself "general" and, rejecting his marquisate

Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.

writer and story scholar James Scott Bell calls "doorways of no return."1

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.

human beings do not make major life decisions unless something challenges them to do so.

Some people skip through life, some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.

Transitional calls to action, however, contain less risk and usually offer a customer something for free. Transitional calls to action can be used to "on-ramp" potential customers to an eventual purchase. Inviting people to watch a webinar or download a PDF are good examples of transitional

I mean, if having a family was ever going to be part of your life, the transition had to happen somewhere, and likely that meant somewhere on your many travels something would change the way you saw things. Unless you got sick of adventuring and decided to up and go home and cast your bait in the pond there." She snorted, wrinkled her nose. "Casting my bait? Ew." "Well, what do you expect from a cattle baron pirate?

I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.

Older people longed for the world not to change so there would be no cost to themselves.

year advanced. But in these first weeks it fell only on the

Brunetti asked, surprised how painful he still found the thought of his mother. He had tried for the last year, with singular lack of success, to tell himself that his mother, that bright-spirited woman who had raised them and loved them with unqualified devotion, had moved off to some other place, where she waited, still quickwitted and eager to smile, for that befuddled shell that was her body to come and join her so that they could drift off together to a final peace. 'I

Death made real time meaningless

The old die softly or the old die hard

Matters progressed.

I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.

but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.

She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up, as what "growing up" entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.

still when I lost her I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door