Quotes About Transition

Roses don't die, they return to the light.

Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.

Youth never sees its shadow till the sun's about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Annie had wondered then if it was true, if the most important things in people's lives were also the most sorrowful, if saying good-bye altered a person in ways that saying 'I love you' could not.

A veces parece que el camino más arduo de la guerra es el que conduce a la paz.

He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.

I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they are married, they have been through it already, and if not, I am sure they have devoted some thought to the matter. To marry means to leave one home for another, and often one place for another.

Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.

What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.

I called her name into the fold between night and day.

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?

the bridge appears when you walk across it—that

The fire died, its spirit creeping into the realm nearby.

What got you here won't get you there. Marshall Goldsmith M

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

It's not so sure that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Marriage changes everything.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.